Šokac language
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The Šokac language (Šokački jezik) was a language listed in Austro-Hungarian censuses. Population censuses performed in Austria-Hungary recorded native language of the citizens and Šokac language was declared as a native language of one number of the citizens, presumably members of Šokci ethnic group. [1] According to the 1910 census, the speakers of Šokac language were recorded in the Bačka-Bodrog county, in the municipalities of Apatin, Baja, Odžaci, and Palanka. [2] Although, not different from Croatian and Serbian Štokavian speech, Šokac language could be identified with Slavonian sub-dialect of the Štokavian speech. [3] Today, most of the members of the Šokci community declare themselves as Croats in censuses and declare their language as Croatian or Serbian.
The Slavonian sub-dialect is spoken by Šokci that live in some parts of Slavonia, Bačka, Baranja, Syrmia, in Croatia, Serbia (Vojvodina), and Hungary, as well as in northern Bosnia. The Slavonian sub-dialect has mixed Ikavian and Ekavian pronunciation. Ikavian is predominant in the Posavina, Baranja, Bačka, and in the Slavonian sub-dialect enclave of Derventa, while Ekavian is predominant in Podravina. There are also enclaves of one of both variants in the main territory of other and vice-versa, as well as mixed Ekavian-Ikavian and Jekavian-Ikavian areas. In some villages in Hungary the original yat is preserved. Local variants can widely differ in the degree of neo-Štokavian accent influneces. In two villages in Posavina, Siče and Magića Male the l, as in the verb nosil, has been retained in place of the modern nosio. In some villages in the Podravina čr instead of the usual cr is preserved, for example in črn instead of crn (black). Both forms are usual in Kajkavian (as in closely related Slovene), but very rare in Štokavian.
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