U ican Dialect

The U ice dialect or Zlatibor dialect is a dialect in the Serbo-Croatian dialect continuum, classified among the Eastern Herzegovinian sub-dialects of the tokavian dialect. It is traditionally spoken by c. 500,000 people the Bosniaks and Serbs of the region in the Zlatibor and Moravica Districts in the U ice region (Stari Vlah) in the south-western part of Serbia.One of the earliest mentions of the local dialect of U ice region is found in Ottoman geographer Evliya Çelebi s record on his visit to the U ice nahiya in 1664. In his travelogue, the language of U i ans is called the Bosnian language.Today Orthodox people in the U ice region usually say they speak Serbian, whereas Muslims (who primarily dwell in the municipalities of Nova Varo , Priboj, Prijepolje, and Sjenica in the Zlatibor District) say they speak Bosnian. The name Serbo-Croatian was also used during the Yugoslav era.