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Croats speak 3 langauges which are part of Standard Croatian: Kaikavian, Chakavian and Stokavian. Stokavian has varieties in Croatian and Serbian, though the grammar and vocabulary are not the same.

Kaikavian and Chakavian are more closer to Western-Slavic language, including Russian.

Some examples:

dažd,dašč = rain (but Shtokavian: kiša)

hiža, dom = house,home (shtokavian: kuća)

Kaj delaš? (kai) & Kak dela? (russian)

črn, morje (kai) ... vs crn, more (shtokavian)

Kaikavian forms future tense similar to Western-Slavic langauges

Let's go: ideme/pemo/gremo (kai,cha) vs idemo (shtokavian)

And culturally Kai Croats have always been part of Central Europe where dominates German/Hungarian/Slavic culture, Cha Croats more Romance/Mediterannean culture the rest - regions that were under Ottoman Empire - belong to South-Eastern European cultural belt. This can be seen in immaterial and material cultlure such as architecture, national dresses, Folk Music, similarities and differences in languages etc.

The accent in Kai and Cha is rarely ont he first syllable whereas Shtokavian and Standard Croatian tend to use it mostly on the first syllable.

Languages closer to Standard Croatian (which is based mostly on Western Shtokavian spoken in Croatia and Bosnia) are Serbian, Macedon, Bulgarian.

One of examples for Croatian and Serbian are:

Serb: Temperatura vazduha ove sedmice će da bude oko 22 stepena.

Cro: Temperatura zraka će ovog tjedna biti oko 22 stupnjeva.

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