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Where are Chakavian dialects spoken in Croatia?
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In Croatia, the Chakavian dialect is spoken along the seacoast.1
While the Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language encompasses three major dialectal branches—Kajkavian, Chakavian, and Shtokavian—these are distributed regionally across the country. In addition to the coastal Chakavian regions, Croatia features Kajkavian in the northwest around the capital, Zagreb, and Shtokavian in the inland areas.1