Review of Kajkavian and Štokavian idioms of Reka near Koprivnica

• Main Author: Mijo Lončarić
• Format: Article
• Language: Croatian
• Published: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 2018-01-01
• Series: Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
• Subjects: Kajkavian; Štokavian; Croatian dialectology; Podravina; Reka
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/299969

People in Reka speak altogether three idioms of Kajkavian and Štokavian: one Kajkavian with three varieties and two Štokavian ones. Most Croats speak, or spoke, Kajkavian, while fewer speak the East-Bosnian Ijekavian-šćakavian dialect. Serbs speak the Neoštokavian Ijekavian („Neoštakavian”, the interrogative pronoun is <i>šta</i>) East-Herzegovinian dialect. I have reviewed the Kajkavian idiom in the monograph <i>Bilogorski kajkavski govori</i> (Kajkavian idioms of Bilogora), and the Štokavian ones in the article <i>Kalničko-bilogorska štokavština</i> (Štokavian idioms of Kalnik and Bilogora). Since the Kajkavian idiom is my native idiom, I undertook a research of it for the <i>Croatian language atlas</i> (point 37a). I make a hypothesis about a language in Podravina before migrations, I speak about how the village emerged and I present the main characteristics of the idioms. I draw parallels with the neighbouring idioms as well.