Is Local Dialect of Maslinica on the Island of Šolta Štokavian or Čakavian?

Abstract

In the dialectological literature we can find informations that all local dialects on island of Šolta are part of Čakavian dialect (South-čakavian dialect), but not the local dialect of Maslinica, which is part of Štokavian dialect (Neo-Štokavian ikavian dialect), like local dialect of Sumartin on the island of Brač, local dialect of Sućuraj on the island of Hvar and local dialect of Račišće on the island of Korčula. Recent dialectological research of the local dialect of Maslinica shows different results. Local dialect of Maslinica, which contain a great deal of Čakavian features and several Štokavian, we should join to the Čakavian dialect (South-čakavian dialect).