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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A8 Dialects 530 / 600

years ago – in most ‘Kajkavian’ dialects (but not all) the stress has shifted from the

very end of the word, becoming the ‘neoacute’ on the preceding syllable;

sometimes, the syllable that gets the stress will be lenghtened:

rööka → rouka hand

žena → žεεna woman, wife

viino → viino wine

The old jd and jt are mostly unchanged in ‘Kajkavian’, while t' changed into č, and in

most dialects d' into j.

There's no ć sound – only č, which is pronounced a bit ‘softer’ than in the Standard

Croatian. Consonants at the end of words become ‘devoiced’, i.e. d is pronounced

as t, b as p, g as k, z as s, etc. For instance, the z in mraz frost is actually pronounced

as s, while the pronunciation of genitive mraza is as z, since the consonant is not

final.

The present tense verb plural endings in this dialect are more regular than in

Standard Croatian; the ending for the 1st pers. plural is quite specific:

sing. plur

1st -m -mε

2nd -š -tε

3rd - -ju

(the rest is coming soon)

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