Lexical, syntactic and other influences in the Croatian dialects

Hrvati su se već od praslavenskoga doba sretali s nizom naroda i s nizom jezika, pri čemu su ubrzo nakon doseljenja primili izraziti neslavenski utjecaj. Nakon oformljenja narječnoga stanja s današnjim dijalektima pojedine su se dijalektalne jedinice nalazile u različitim povijesnim situacijama, pa su se i utjecaji uspostavljali s tim u skladu, često raznonarječni, još češće utjecaji drugih jezika.Croats have come into contact with a number of people and languages since pre-Slavic age so that after their settling, they accepted an extraordinary non- Slavic influence. After the formation of the dialect situation concerning the contemporary dialects, separate dialectal units came into different historical situations. So, the influences, often of different kinds, more often of different languages, were established according to that