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The Bunjevac dialect (bunjevački govor) is a Štokavian dialect used by some members of majority Bunjevci ethnic Croat and minority Bunjevci different ethnic group. The Bunjevci using it live in parts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia as well as in southern parts of Croatia. It has an exclusive Croatian Ikavian reflex of the Common Slavic yat phoneme. Its users are largely known to use the Latin alphabet, as is illustrated in their locally published newspaper. In the 2002 census results published by the Statistical Office of Serbia, Bunjevac was not listed separatelly as a language, but those that declared that language to be Bunjevac are listed in category "other languages". For example, in the municipality of Subotica, the number of those listed as speaking "other languages" (presumably Bunjevac) is 8,914. [1] The status of the Bunjevac dialect is vague, and it is often considered a dialect of Croatian. According to the 2002 census in Serbia, some members of the Bunjevac ethnic community declared that their native language is Croatian. This doesn't mean that they don't use this specific dialect, merely that they don't consider it sufficiently distinct from the aforementioned standard languages to register as speakers of a separate language. However, those Bunjevci who declared in census that Bunjevac is their native language consider it as separate language.
In the old Austro-Hungarian censuses (for example one from 1910), Bunjevac was declared as a native language of numerous citizens (for example in the city of Subotica 33,247 people declared Bunjevac as their native language in 1910). During the existence of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, members of the Bunjevac ethnic community mostly declared themselves as speaking Croatian, .
Today, there is wish among the Bunjevac community for affirmation of their dialect. The Bunjevačke novine is a Bunjevac language monthly newspaper published in Subotica. The Radio Television of Vojvodina broadcasts TV programme ("Spektar" TV magazine) in Bunjevac. There are also demands for school classes in Bunjevac.
Bunjevac (Croatian) dialect
- Subotica (ethnic Hungarian)
- Mala Bosna (ethnic Croat)
- Gornji Tavankut (ethnic Croat)
- Donji Tavankut (ethnic Croat)
- Đurđin (ethnic Croat)
- Stari Žednik (ethnic Croat)
- Bikovo (ethnic Croat)
- Ljutovo (regional Bunjevac)
