83 Summary of Dialects and Related Languages

This chapter summarizes differences among dialects.

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Slavic Languages

All Slavic languages share a lot of similarities with Croatian. They are conveniently divided to four (geographical) groups (dialects spoken by Croats are shaded):

Western Polish, Czech, Slovak	Eastern Belarus, Russian, Ukrainian
Western South Slovenian Kajkavian Čakavian Štokavian	Eastern South Macedonian, Bulgarian

All languages in the right (eastern) side of the table (Eastern and Eastern South) use exclusively Cyrillic scripts. The left (western) part uses Latin-like scripts, except for Serbs who speak Štokavian, who use both.

The main features are:

Western complex declension patterns	Eastern a lot of "soft" consonants
Western South simplified declension	Eastern South no declension (English-like grammar)