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ijekavian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ijeka-vian
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.

Inflected Forms

Iyekavian (alternative, rare) Jekavian (alternative) Yekavian (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

Ikavian Ekavian

Questions

What does ijekavian mean?
A dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.

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