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Regional speech & dialects
| Serbian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dijàlekat | a dialect |
| nárečje | a dialect group (a major division of a language) |
| gȍvōr | speech; a speech (by a speaker); a dialect, a local variety |
| dijalektìzam | a dialectism |
| lokalìzam | a localism |
| ékavica | Ekavian, the Ekavian pronunciation (e for yat: mleko, lep; usual in Serbia) |
| ijékavica | Ijekavian, the Ijekavian pronunciation (ije/je for yat: lijep, vrijeme) |
| íkavica | Ikavian, the Ikavian pronunciation (i for yat: mliko, lip; some western dialects) |
| jȁt | yat (the Proto-Slavic vowel that became e, ije/je or i) |
| rèfleks jȁta | the reflex of yat (what yat became in a given variety) |
| štókavskī | Shtokavian (named after što/šta, ‘what’; the base of the standard varieties) |
| kàjkavskī | Kajkavian (named after kaj, ‘what’; northern Croatia) |
| čákavskī | Chakavian (named after ča, ‘what’; Istria, the islands, parts of the Croatian coast) |
| kȁj | what (in Kajkavian; the standard has šta, što) |
| čȁ | what (in Čakavian) |
| tòrlačkī | Torlak, Torlakian (of the south-eastern dialects, with almost no cases) |
| jùžnjāčkī | southern (in manner and speech, of the south of Serbia) |
| vojvòđanskī | of Vojvodina, Vojvodinian (of speech: a drawl, German and Hungarian loanwords) |
| beògradskī | of Belgrade, Belgrade (as in Belgrade speech, close to the standard) |
| dȅ si | where are you? (colloquial); how’s it going?, hi (among friends) |
| bȏlan | man (a Bosnian address, like ‘mate’; to a woman, bona) |
| mȏre | sea; hey you (particle; rough, among friends; southern Serbia) |
| vȍzdra | hi, hey (back slang, among friends only) |
| knjìževnī jèzik | the literary language (the codified norm taught at school) |
| stàndardnī jèzik | the standard language (the modern term for the literary language) |
| varìjanta | a variant (in linguistics, a national standard variety) |
| sȑpskohrvātskī | Serbo-Croatian (the name of the shared standard in Yugoslav times) |
| hr̀vātskī | Croatian (the standard used in Croatia: kruh, tjedan, tisuća) |
| bòsanskī | Bosnian (one of the standards used in Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| crnògorskī | Montenegrin, of Montenegro (also of the standard used there) |
| Vȍjvodina | Vojvodina |
| Šumàdija | Šumadija |
| Bànāt | Banat (a region; in Serbia, the east of Vojvodina) |
| Bȁčka | Bačka (a region; in Serbia, the north-west of Vojvodina) |
| Srȇm | Syrmia (Srem, the region between the Sava and the Danube) |
| Sàndžak | Sandžak (a region in south-western Serbia and northern Montenegro) |
| àkcenat | accent, stress (Serbian has a pitch accent with four types) |
| ȉzgovōr | pronunciation; an excuse |
| náglasak | word stress; an accent; emphasis (on something: na + Acc.) |
| národnī gȍvor | vernacular speech, the vernacular (as against the codified standard) |
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