Chakavian or Čakavian is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken by Croats along the Adriatic coast, in the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, Croatian Littoral and parts of coastal and southern Central Croatia, as well as by the Burgenland Croats as Burgenland Croatian in southeastern Austria, northwestern Hungary and southwestern Slovakia as well as few municipalities in southern Slovenia on the border with Croatia.
Matija Antun Relković was Habsburg military officer and a Croatian writer.
Crikvenica is a town in Croatia, located on the Adriatic in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
Vrbovsko is a town in western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County; on its 280 square kilometers area, Vrbovsko features 60 settlements and a total of 6,047 inhabitants. The town of Vrbovsko itself has a population of 1,673.
Lukovdol is a small village located in the Gorski Kotar region of Croatia, about one mile south of the Slovenian border. Lukovdol is part of Vrbovsko municipality. Lukovdol has an area of 5.91 km2. As of 2011, there were 129 people living in Lukovdol. Local industries include cattle raising, lumber processing, and textile products.
The Bunjevac dialect, also known as Bunjevac speech, is a Neo-Shtokavian Younger Ikavian dialect of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language, preserved among members of the Bunjevac community mostly in the Bačka area of northern Serbia and southern Hungary, particularly in Baja and surroundings. It is also found in Croatia, and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They presumably originate from western Herzegovina. Their accent is purely Ikavian, with /i/ for the Common Slavic vowels yat.
Pero Budmani was a Croatian Serb writer, linguist, grammarian, and philologist from Dubrovnik and a renowned polyglot.
The Institute for the Croatian Language, formerly known as the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics until 2023, is a state-run linguistics institute in Croatia whose purpose is to "preserve and foster" the Croatian language.
Ranko Matasović is a Croatian linguist, Indo-Europeanist, and Celticist.
Miljevci or Miljevci plateau is a small region in Šibenik-Knin County in Croatia that includes seven villages. The plateau has an area of over 100 square kilometers and is located between the rivers of Krka, Čikola and mountain Promina. Miljevci is only a few kilometers from the town of Drniš in the east, and across the Visovac Monastery in the west. The majority of the population are Croats.
Croatian Vukovians refers to a group of Croatian linguists that were active at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Their work focused on the standardization of the Croatian language. They were led by Tomislav Maretić, and the most prominent members were Franjo Iveković, Ivan Broz, Pero Budmani, Armin Pavić, Vatroslav Rožić and others.
Rijeka Philological School was a 19th-century philological school that operated in Rijeka, offering a set of solutions for the issues involved in the standardization of Croatian literary language. It was led by Fran Kurelac.
Boljun is a village in the municipality of Lupoglav, in Istria County, Croatia.
Southwestern Istrian, also known as Chakavian-Shtokavian, Shtokavian-Chakavian, or Shtakavian-Chakavian ikavian, is one of the dialects of the Chakavian language in Istria, Croatia. Through the history there were different hypotheses which classified it, besides in Chakavian, instead in Shtokavian, because it is a transitional dialect. It is the most widespread Chakavian dialect in Istria.
Vrandečić is a Croatian surname. The name is known only to originate from Pučišća on the island of Brač. The oldest mention of the name is from 1674. The meaning of the name is not entirely clear. The most likely explanation is that it comes from the first name Vrandeka, Vrane, Frane.
Mate Kapović is a Croatian linguist specializing in Indo-European, Slavic languages and the Proto-Balto-Slavic language.
Ivan Derkos was a Croatian politician associated with the beginning of the Illyrian movement, the 19th-century Croatian national revival movement. He gained prominence by reading a series of notes written by Fran Kurelac in defence of lectures on the Croatian language held at the University of Zagreb by Matija Smodek in 1832.
Grmoščica or Grmošćica is a hill on Medvednica mountain in central Croatia, just north of Zagreb. Its highest peak is 239 m.
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