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Iyekavian

Iyekavian is the alternative form of Ijekavian.

Meaning of Ijekavian

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.

Questions about Iyekavian

What is Iyekavian the alternative form of?
Iyekavian is the alternative form of Ijekavian.

Words near Iyekavian in the dictionary

  1. Iyar
  2. Iyari
  3. Iyaric
  4. iyashikei
  5. IYDK
  6. Iyekavian
  7. iyengar
  8. iyengaroside
  9. Iyengars
  10. Iyer
  11. Iyers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Iyekavian (page history and authors); Ijekavian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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