Štokaviann.adj.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 695/2 Servian is sometimes called shtokavski because the Servian word for ‘what’ is shto, whereas the Croats say cha for shto, and therefore their language is called chakavski.]

1925 P. Radin tr. J. Vendryes Language 291 In Italy, in the province of Campobasso, there is a Serbo-Croatian colony..which..speaks a dialect of the Stokavian type.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 355 Serbo-Croatian, with three dialects conventionally named according to the way in which they form the word for ‘what’: Štokavian (the basis of the literary language), Čakavian, and Kaykavian.

1949 R. Jakobson Slavic Langs. 4 Serbocroatian from East to West presents three basic groups: Štokavian, Čakavian and Kajkavian.

1964 M. Partridge Serbo-Croatian 13 Three distinct basic dialects exist in spoken Serbo-Croatian. They are referred to as čakavian, kajkavian and štokavian according to whether the word ‘ča?’, ‘kaj?’ or ‘što?’ is used respectively as the interrogative pronoun meaning what?

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 867/1 The literary Serbo-Croatian language was formed in the first half of the 19th century on the basis of the Shtokavian dialects that extend over the greater part of the Serbo-Croatian territory in Yugoslavia.

1976 Language 52 375 The dat. sg. + i here..represents a morphological change rather than a phonological difference between kajkavian and štokavian.

1977 Archivum Linguisticum 8 91 In štokavian Serbo-Croat (on which the standard language is based), the rising accent is a disyllabic one.