page_title: Chakavian
section_title: Recent studies
hierarchical_section_title: Chakavian / Recent studies
caption_attribution_description: English: Distribution of central South Slavic dialects before 16th century migrations.Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Raspored srednjojužnoslovenskih dijalekata pre migracija iz 16. veka.
context_page_description: Chakavian or Čakavian is a South Slavic regiolect or language spoken primarily by Croats along the Adriatic coast, in the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, Croatian Littoral and parts of coastal and southern Central Croatia. Chakavian, like Kajkavian, is not spoken in Serbo-Croatian-speaking regions beyond Croatia.
  Chakavian has a limited mutual intelligibility with Shtokavian, the prestige dialect of Serbo-Croatian, and with Kajkavian. All three Serbo-Croatian varieties are named after their most common word for "what?", which in Chakavian is ča, ća or ca depending on the subdialect.
  Chakavian was the basis for the first literary standard of the Croats. Today, it is spoken almost entirely within Croatia's borders, apart from the Burgenland Croatian in Austria and Hungary and a few villages in southern Slovenia.
context_section_description: Due to its archaic nature, early medieval development, and corpus of vernacular literacy, the typical Chakavian dialect has attracted numerous dialectologists who have documented its nuances, so that Chakavian was among the best described Slavic dialects, but its atypical tsakavism was partly neglected and less studied. The representative modern work in the field is Čakavisch-deutsches Lexikon, vol. 1.-3, Koeln-Vienna, 1979–1983, by Croatian linguists Hraste and Šimunović and German Olesch.
  The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is currently engaged in editing a multivolume dictionary of the Chakavian literary language, based on the wealth of literature written in Chakavian. More than forty dictionaries of local Chakavian varieties have been published, the largest among them including more than 20,000 words are from locations such as Split town, Gacka valley, Brač and Vis islands, Baška in Krk, and Bell in Cres.
  Other recent titles include Janne Kalsbeek's work on The Cakavian Dialect of Orbanici near Minim in Istria, as well as Keith Langston's Cakavian Prosody: The Accentual Patterns of the Cakavian Dialects of Croatian.
caption: Distribution of Chakavian, Kajkavian, and Western Shtokavian before 16th century migrations. Chakavian in blue.
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