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Šokac (šokački jezik) was a language listed in Austro-Hungarian censuses. Population censuses performed inAustria-Hungary recorded the native language of the citizens, whereby Šokac was declared as native language to one part of the population, presumably members of theŠokci ethnic group.[1] According to the 1910 census, the speakers of Šokac were recorded in theBačka-Bodrog County, in the municipalities ofApatin,Baja,Odžaci, andPalanka.[1] Although, not very different fromCroatian orSerbianShtokavian speech, Šokac could be identified along withSlavonian dialect of theOld-Shtokavian speech. Today, most of the members of the Šokci community declare themselves asCroats in the census, and their language as Croatian or Serbian.
TheSlavonian dialect is spoken by Šokci who live in some parts ofSlavonia,Bačka,Baranja,Syrmia, in easternCroatia, northernSerbia (Vojvodina), andHungary, as well as in northernBosnia. The Slavonian dialect has mixedIkavian andEkavian pronunciation. Ikavian accent is predominant in thePosavina, Baranja, Bačka, and in the Slavonian enclave ofDerventa andOrašje, while Ekavian accent is predominant inPodravina. There are also enclaves of one accent in the territory of the other, as well as mixed Ekavian–Ikavian andJekavian–Ikavian areas. In some villages inHungary, the original[clarification needed]yat is preserved. Local variants can widely differ with the degree ofNeo-Shtokavian influence.
The oldest variant of this dialect persisted in some settlements of Sava river valley between Gradiška and Brod: chiefly inDavor,Orubica,Siče, andMagić-Mala. There the terminall e.g. in the verbnosil has been retained (instead of modernnosio =carried), andpepel instead of newpepeo (ash). The old group"šć" is conserved instead of modernšt e.g.šćap (not modernštap = stick), and the archaic accents are oftenterminal or penultimate, rarely initial in polysyllabic words. In some villages in the Podravinačr instead of the usualcr is preserved, for example in oldčrn instead of newcrn (black). All these features are usual inChakavian andKajkavian, but rareOld-Shtokavian dialects also have these features.
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