Bunjevac dialect
Štokavian-Western Ikavian dialect / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bunjevac dialect (bunjevački dijalekt),[2] also known as Bunjevac speech (bunjevački govor),[3] is a Neo-Shtokavian Younger Ikavian dialect of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language,[4] preserved among members of the Bunjevac community in Serbia and Hungary. Their accent is purely Ikavian, with /i/ for the Common Slavic vowels yat.[5]
Bunjevac | |
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bunjevački | |
Native to | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia (Vojvodina) |
Native speakers | 6,800 (2011)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | bunj1247 |
Bunjevac dialect has been included in the list of official public administrative languages of the Subotica Municipality in Serbia since 2021. And Croatia added in 2021 the Bunjevac dialect to the list of protected intangible cultural heritage. Within the Bunjevac community and between Serbia and Croatia is for several decades an ongoing language battle about the status of Bunjevac speech.