work by "the father of Croatian literature" Marko Marulic and the first Croatian dictionary authored by Faust Vrancic, among others, are mostly Chakavian in their form. The term Chakavian and definition of the dialect date from the mid-19th century.

Classification

Historically, the classification of Chakavian has been a subject of much debate regarding both the question of how should it be named and whether

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