Younger Ikavian dialect

Younger Ikavian (Serbo-Croatian: mlađi ikavski), also called Western Ikavian/Western Neoshtokavian Ikavian (Serbo-Croatian: zapadni ikavski/zapadni novoštokavski ikavski), or Bosnian–Dalmatian dialect (bosansko-dalmatinski dijalekat), and Bunjevac dialect (bunjevački dijalekat), is a subdialect of Shtokavian Serbo-Croatian spoken in Croatia in the Dalmatian Hinterland, in Bosnia and Herzegovina west of the river Bosna and Neretva, and in the Bácska region of Hungary (inc. Budapest) and the autonomous province Vojvodina of Serbia. Most speakers use the Latin alphabet.

There are also isolated pockets where this dialect is spoken – small area south of Novi Vinodolski, Lika hinterland, the southern Croatian islands of Šolta, Brač, Hvar and Korčula and in central Slavonia.

It is further divided into Ikavian Schakavian (Šćakavian; from šćakavski) and Ikavian Shtakavian (Štakavian; from štakavski).

In 2018, Serbia finalized the standardisation of the Serbian variety of the Danubian branch of the Bunjevac dialect.

Since 2021, Croatia categorized the Neo-Shtokavian Younger Ikavian dialect to be Bunjevac dialect with three sub-branches: Dalmatian (also called Bosnian-Dalmatian), Danubian (also called Bunjevac), and Littoral-Lika.