page_title: South Slavic languages
section_title: Dialectal classification
hierarchical_section_title: South Slavic languages / Classification / Dialectal classification
caption_attribution_description: English: Original edition of the Nouvi Zákon (New Testament of István Küzmics) in the Exhibition of Library of Murska Sobota in 2009 (Küzmics year)
context_page_description: The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches by a belt of German, Hungarian and Romanian speakers. The first South Slavic language to be written was the variety spoken in Thessaloniki, now called Old Church Slavonic, in the ninth century. It is retained as a liturgical language in some South Slavic Orthodox churches in the form of various local Church Slavonic traditions.
context_section_description: South Slavic languages
  Eastern
  Bulgarian dialects
  Eastern Bulgarian dialects
  Western Bulgarian dialects
  Macedonian dialects
  Northern
  Western/Northwestern
  Eastern
  Southeastern
  Southwestern
  Transitional (called Torlakian), including Transitional Bulgarian dialects in western Bulgaria, Prizren-Timok dialect in southeast Serbia and south Kosovo, northern Macedonian dialects
  Western
  Shtokavian dialects (Serbo-Croatian)
  Šumadija–Vojvodina (Ekavian, Neo-Shtokavian): Serbia
  Smederevo–Vršac (Ekavian, Old-Shtokavian): east-central Serbia
  Kosovo–Resava (Ekavian, Old-Shtokavian): north Kosovo, eastern central Serbia
  Zeta–Raška (Ijekavian, Old-Shtokavian), in south and east Montenegro and southwest Serbia
  Eastern Herzegovinian (Ijekavian, Neo-Shtokavian), Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro
  East-Bosnian (Ijekavian, Old-Shtokavian), in central and northern Bosnia
  Slavonian (mixed yat, Old-Shtokavian), in eastern Croatia
  Younger Ikavian (Ikavian), in Dalmatia, central Bosnia, northern Serbia
  Prizren–Timok (Ekavian, Old-Shtokavian), in southeast Serbia and south Kosovo
  Chakavian dialects
  Buzet subdialect: Croatia
  Western Chakavian subdialect: Croatia
  Southwestern Istrian subdialect: Croatia
  Northern Chakavian subdialect: Croatia
  Southern Chakavian subdialect: Croatia
  Lastovo subdialect: Croatia
  Kajkavian dialects, in Croatia
  Zagorje–Međimurje subdialect
  Križevci–Podravina subdialect
  Turopolje–Posavina subdialect
  Prigorski subdialect
  Donja Sutla subdialect
  Goranski subdialect
  Slovene dialects
  Littoral Slovene: Primorsko; west Slovenia and Adriatic
  Rovte Slovene: Rovtarsko; between Littoral and Carniolan
  Upper and Lower Carniolan: Gorenjsko and Dolenjsko; central; basis of Standard Slovene
  Styrian: Štajersko; eastern Slovenia
  Pannonian or Prekmurje dialect: Panonsko; far eastern Slovenia 
  Carinthian: Koroško; far north and northwest Slovenia
  Resian: Rozajansko; Italy, west of Carinthian
  Other
  Burgenland Croatian (mixed), minority in Austria and Hungary
caption: Prekmurje dialect Lutheran New Testament in the 18th-century Nouvi Zákon
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