Northern Chakavian
Northern Chakavian is a dialect of the Chakavian variety of Croatian. It is spoken in eastern Istria, outskirts of Žminj and Pazin, Croatian Littoral up to Bakar, on the islands of Cres and northern Lošinj, north of Middle Chakavian.
The speech of the major Croatian city Rijeka used to belong to this dialect, but under the influence of Shtokavian immigrants a local idiom developed that lost most of the characteristical Chakavian features.
In this dialect Common Slavic yat phoneme yielded /e/, and only exceptionally /i/.
