Susak dialect

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The Susak dialect is a distinctive Croatian Chakavian dialect spoken on the island of Susak, notable for its archaic features and strong Italian and Venetian influences.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Krk subdialect 1
Susak dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chakavian dialect
Croatian dialect
South Slavic language variety
country Republic of Croatia
endangeredStatus endangered dialect
geographicIsolation island community
hasFeature archaic phonology
archaic vocabulary
distinctive accent
lexical borrowing from Italian
lexical borrowing from Venetian
strong Romance substrate
hasInfluenceFrom Italian language
Romance languages
Venetian language
languageBranch Slavic languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
languageGroup South Slavic languages
mutualIntelligibility partially intelligible with other Chakavian dialects
partially intelligible with standard Croatian
numberOfSpeakers small speaker community
preservesFeatureOf older stages of Chakavian
region northern Adriatic Sea
linked to: Gulf of Trieste
spokenIn Croatia
island of Susak
subgroupOf Chakavian dialects
linked to: Chakavian dialect

Croatian language
linked to: Croatian
usedBy Susak emigrant communities
inhabitants of Susak
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Susak hasDialect Susak dialect
Chakavian dialect hasSubdialect Krk subdialect
linked to: Susak dialect