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Ijekavian

Ijekavian proper noun: a dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.

Proper noun

Ijekavian

  1. A dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.

Forms of Ijekavian

alternative formJekavian
alternative formYekavian
alternative form (rare)Iyekavian

Questions about Ijekavian

What does Ijekavian mean?
Ijekavian means a dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.
What part of speech is Ijekavian?
Ijekavian is a proper noun.

Words near Ijekavian in the dictionary

  1. ijazahs
  2. ijazas
  3. Ijazes
  4. ijbol
  5. IJDB
  6. Ijekavian
  7. Ijekavic
  8. Ijen
  9. Ijeoma
  10. Ijevan
  11. Ijiraq

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