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So called “Kaikavian” language is a Central European, Slavic language.
Its written and spoken <\/strong>tradition goes back to medieval “<\/strong>Kaikavian” state originally called Slovenian country with its capital Zagreb.

Slovenie or Windischland, Tothorszag
vs
Horvatistan, <\/strong>Croatia or <\/strong>Horvatorzag.

Today <\/strong>Kaikavian folks <\/strong>sadly suffer under Croatian yoke and its Slavic, Central European identity and language are vanishing due to aggressive croatisation and balkanisation that go hand in hand.
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  1. Kaikavian is the original language of Zagreb and the Kaikavian region around it<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  2. Kaikavian was the standard literary language in the whole area of Zagreb bishopric until the mid of 19th century<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  3. If you speak Kaikavian in Zagreb today, most people will not understand what you are saying, and will ask if you are from Slovenia<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  4. Kaikavian\u00a0literary language is recognized under ISO 639-3 language code kjv, <\/strong>and there is much literature dated from 16th ct. in Central European national libraries written\u00a0in kjv<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  5. Glottolog entry by respected international linguists for Kaikavian language is here<\/a><\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
  6. Kaikavians started to learn todays official language of Croatia some 150 years ago.
    Since then much damage was done and is still being done to their language today by Croatian institutions<\/li>\r\n
  7. Term “Kaikavian” has been coined by Serbo-Croatian philologists end of 19th ct. and has been in use as such but is actually wrong since based on pronoun “kaj” it should encompass also today Slovenes, but it doesn’t.
    It is an expression of political opression from Balkans and shall be replaced with what Kaikavians really are and how they called themselves for more than 1000 years – a folk of Pannonian Slovenes <\/strong>!<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n

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    \"Gozpodska-vulica-Zagreb\"<\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n

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    Old street sign in Kaikavian literary language in Zagreb –\u00a0Gospodska vulica<\/strong>15<\/a><\/sup>
    Below in German\u00a0Herren Gasse<\/em>. Picture\u00a0Akos Doncsecz<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    According to linguists16<\/a><\/sup>, Kaikavian is being used for more than 1000 years by so called Kaikavian folks in what is today northern Croatia. Today most “Kaikavians” regard themselves as Kaikavian Croats. However, they do not learn under Croatian rule about their own separate history, language and tradition.
    So most Kaikavian folks and Croats did not know that Kaikavian literary language existed, until few years ago, and many still do not know because it is kind of censored on public TV to talk about that.
    Kaikaivans also do not know that their ancestors had their own kingdom and that their original name was Slovenci. These facts are all known to historians, yet they are not included in the public education system of Croatia. Still, some regard themselves as Kaikavians only.
    Kaikavian language existed long before there was Croatia, like this is the case with many languages where their development is much older than the idea of national state developed in 19th century. In fact there was ancient Kaikavian state around the time of Charlemagne rule with its main city of Sisek, and in late medieval times there was a kingdom of Slovenje\u00a0<\/strong>or Slovenski orsag\u00a0<\/strong>with its main city Zagreb. Its language was called\u00a0Slovenski\u00a0<\/strong>language, and not Croatian. Slovenski\u00a0<\/strong>is the first self-name of today’s Kaikavian language. Croatia at that time was a different country in the south of river Una and Kupa. Croatian then was \u010cakavian-Ikavian language, written in different scripts:     glagolitic<\/a> – istud alphabetum est Chrawaticum<\/em> and cyrillic script. Kaikavians\/Slovenci in their kingdom of Slovenje used only Latin script, and never used these two Croatian scripts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    It is important to know the distinction that the original self-name\u00a0Slovenski\u00a0<\/strong>language of Slovenski orsag\u00a0<\/em>did not denote \u00a0language of todays Slovenia, but the language that Serbo-Croatian philologists started to call “Kaikavian” since the end of 19th century, which was thus accepted by Slavistics, even though it is politically incorrect.
    Prof.     Vatroslav von\u00a0Jagi\u010d<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s most prominent Slavic philologists, stated in his \u201cArchiv f\u00fcr slawische Philologie\u201d that there were 3 different languages on different territories, that shared the same name Slovenski: <\/strong>in what is present day Slovenia, Slovakia, and Slovenje<\/strong> (North of Croatia). However, only one of them had it’s capital and state – it was Zagreb and Slovenje. And exactly these Zagreb Slovenes were robbed of their capital, kingdom and language by Croatian invaders from South. How this happened it is written here.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    When did the ancestors of Kaikavians arrive?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

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    Starting from the arrival of Pannonian Slavs at the end of 6th ct.17<\/a><\/sup>, there is continuity of culture in the Kaikavian spoken area. Few centuries later we can distinguish the predecessor of todays Kaikavian from what was going develop into neighbouring languages like Cakavian. Thus Kaikavian can be considered as among the oldest languages of Europe. Today Kaikavian area of use stretches from Pitoma\u010da in the east to \u010cabar and Fu\u017eine the west. In the south from the village of Krapje to the northern border of Slovenia.Kaikavians are Croatians, but their traditional language is different from todays official language of Croatia, which was introduced in Kaikavian region only 150 years ago. Beside Kaikavian, another Croatian language that differs from todays standard Croatian is \u010cakavian. Today\u2019s self name for Kaikavian language is Kajkavski \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0pronounced like Khay-khavs-key<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    What makes Kaikavian a language?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

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    The unity of Kaikavian language and its dialects was first proved by most important Croatian\u00a0linguist Stjepan Iv\u0161i\u010d in his groundbreaking work \u201cThe language of Croatian Kaikavians<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0in 1936. Long before that, Kaikavians have developed\u00a0literary language in which they have been publishing literature since 16th century.
    Today, the reality of Kaikavian language is confirmed by prof. emer. dr. sc. Josip Sili\u0107    18<\/a><\/sup> one of the most prominent contemporary Croatian linguists, as well as by famous publicist and linguist dr. sc. Inoslav Be\u0161ker19<\/a><\/sup>, and by many other linguists who are unbiased and well-informed about this marginalised language.
    Sili\u0107 clearly states why Kaikavian<\/strong>\u00a0has different\u00a0<\/strong>linguistic\u00a0<\/strong>system<\/strong> from Neostokavian(=offical Croatian) because Kaikavian has different\u00a0phonology<\/strong>, morphology\u00a0<\/strong>and syntax<\/strong>. And that Kaikavian has also different accentuation<\/strong> from official Croatian and today’s Slovene was proved by aforementioned Iv\u0161i\u010d.
    Also vocabulary\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0Kaikavian language\u00a0is\u00a0different\u00a0from Neostokavian Croatian – often same or much more similar to Slovene.
    So all the five elements of Kaikavian language:\u00a0phonology<\/strong>, morphology,<\/strong>\u00a0syntax, accentuation <\/strong>and\u00a0vocabulary <\/strong>differ from Neostokavian\/Croatian language.
    This is why\u00a0Kaikavian language is hardly or not intelligible to a Stokavian speaker.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    We present here in these pages the details about Kaikavian language and overview of its history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    It is important to understand that Kaikavian dialects\u00a0<\/strong>are not dialects of official Neostokavian Croatian. Unlike bhs-languages (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian)\u00a0that form\u00a0the\u00a0Neostokavian dialectal group, Kaikavian does not belong to this group. This is something all linguists agree.\u00a0Kaikavian dialects share common linguistic characteristics of Kaikavian language, with local or regional differences.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    For characteristics of Kaikavian language jump here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    Kaikavian language today in Croatia: institutional &\u00a0public discrimination<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

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    Kaikavian language has been existing throughout centuries. From 16th to the mid of 19th century Kaikavian\u00a0had the functionality <\/strong>of\u00a0official <\/strong>and\u00a0literary language<\/strong> (more details below) in the kingdom that was called originally Slovonski orsag<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0or Slovenje<\/em><\/strong>. Through medieval times until the 1800 ct. Kaikavians never called their land Croatia or their language Croatian. They denoted it Slovenje and themselves as Slovenci. In Latin this was Slavonia. The area of Regnum of Slovenje was what they call today Kaikavian speaking area, whereas Croatia (Harvatska\/Hervatska) was in the south to Knin. All written sources from these times show this – Kaikavian, Austrian, Hungarian and Croatian sources state this. More about it below.
    After the middle of 19th ct. Kaikavian language\u00a0was removed\u00a0from public use in Kaikavian region\/state by the decision of Croatian parliament in favour of, as officially proclaimed,\u00a0Yugoslavian language    20<\/a><\/sup><\/em>.
    This Yugoslavian language was the Neostokavian dialect imported from Bosnia\/Monte Negro. This is also the reason why bhs-languages are mutually intelligible \u2013 they are all based on one and same Neostokavian dialect. But not Kaikavian \u2013 it \u00a0had different historical, cultural and linguistic development. To remove a highly developed and urban language like Kaikavian from public use in 19th ct. was actually a crazy decision seen from cultural and societal point of view. Kaikavians tried to resist by making allies with Hungarians, but could not stand against the ruling Croatian aristocracy that was mostly for the new southern dialect hoping to Neostokavian get areas and properties in the south.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    The proclamation of, as initially called,\u00a0Yugoslavian\u00a0<\/em>dialect for new official language of\u00a0the new Croatia \u2013 Cakavian Dalmatia<\/em>, Stokavian Slavonia <\/em>(since 18th ct.<\/em>) and Kaikavian Horvatska<\/em> marks the start of discrimination of Kaikavian (and Cakavian) language in the new state of Croatia, meaning also in Kaikavian area. This discrimination started in 19th centurty, did not stop even today, and it is worse today than it was before socialist Yugoslavia. The doctrine that Kaikavian is a dialect of official Stokavian Croatian started actually in socialist Yugoslavia, and is carried over without thinking into the new Croatian state by language policy creators. This doctrine has only one goal and reason – to stop Kaikavians from learning and using their language. Initially the doctrine “Away from Austro-Hungarian Empire” introduced new Yugoslavian language for all South Slaves – also meant for Bulgarians and Slovenes. For that, Neostokavian language, the lingua franca<\/em> among Balkan South Slaves, was chosen as the new official language. Bulgarians did not join, Slovenes managed to resist (they had Pre\u0161eren), Kaikavians tried but failed. The Kaikavian “Pre\u0161eren” – Miroslav Krle\u017ea came some 100 years too late – when all was set and done in favour of Neostokavian language. Kaikavian authors wrote against acceptance of the foreign Neostokavian Croatian language, and lower Kaikavian aristocracy even fought against Ban Jela\u010di\u010d and his Neostokavian colonisators from south. Also \u0160afarik, who supported Gaj in introducing new orthography, was against dropping valuable Kaikavian language, but it did not help yet. Stokavian hegemony and colonisatio are further on the rise.
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    Both\u00a0Kaikavian and Slovenian as Slavic languages from Central Europe were\u00a0not understood by the Balkan South Slaves. Slovenians defended their language, but Kaikavians around\u00a0Zagreb\u00a0could not, and Kaikavian langauge\u00a0had to retreat as official language in the eyes of Ban Jela\u010di\u010d, Ljudevit Gaj and count Dra\u0161kovi\u010d and many other Illyrists. Of course these three hoped to extend their influence on the areas to be\/or then added to new Croatia,\u00a0and actively worked on that. So why Kaikavian\u00a0was abolished as official language in Kaikavian state is for narrow political and personal interests like greed, and low level of education in history of Illyrists like Ljudevit Gaj, who spread romantic fantastics.
    This led to the situation today where\u00a0Kaikavian language is seriously endangered and on the verge of disappearing in Croatia, <\/strong>because intergenerational\u00a0transmission is already broken.\u00a0
    Disappearing \/ glottophagy of Kaikavian language <\/strong>((Mario Jembrih\u00a0<\/strong>2015:\u00a0    ZAKAJ SME DOBILI MEDNARODNEGA ISO KODA ZA\u00a0K<\/strong>AJ<\/strong>KAV<\/strong>SKI KNJI\u017dEVNI JEZIK<\/a>. 14. scientific conference\u00a0\u201cKaikavian language, literature\u00a0and culture\u00a0through \u00a0centuries\u201d, Krapina.)) is mostly the result\u00a0of discriminating language\u00a0policies that have been created and promoted by Croatian institutions that are governmental or close to government \u2013 Croatian Academy of Science (HAZU, former JAZU), Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (IHJJ) and Croatian Ministry of Education.
    These institutions use the superficial similarity between the name Horvatski\u00a0<\/strong>that was imposed by Croatian aristocracy instead of name “Slovenski” during less than 2 centuries (1700-1850), and the name Hrvatski<\/strong> that was introduced for today\u2019s Croatian language around 1840 – which was the name for the Balkanian Stokavian language.
    So Croatian Aristocracy, Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and managed to introduce an irrational mess into what is called North Croatia.
    Thus HAZU and IHJJ neglect the fact that Horvatski (Kaikavian literary language) and Hrvatski (Southern Neostokavian)\u00a0were\u00a02\u00a0different languages belonging to different dialectal groups and language systems.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    Horvatski \/<\/strong>\u00a0Kaikavian<\/strong> language \/ Central European cultural scope<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

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