of its dialect continuum) Montenegrin (official language of Montenegro called Montenegrin, accurately it is a Standardized Shtokavian dialect part of its dialect continuum) New Eastern Shtokavian Šumadija–Vojvodina / Younger Ekavian (Ekavian) (in Northern Serbia) (includes most part of Belgrade, Serbia's capital, Novi Sad and Kragujevac) (Standard Serbian is not based on its capital dialect) Transitional West-East South Slavic Torlakian (also belong to Old Shtokavian) (Торлачки / Торлашки – Torlački / Torlashki) Serbian Torlakian (spoken in Southern Serbia, including Niš) Timok-Prizren South Morava-Prizren West South Morava group West South Morava proper Janjevo-Letnica (traditionally in the southeastern part of Kosovo) (spoken by the Kosovo Croats that form Slavic language enclaves in Kosovo the same way as Kosovo Serbians) Janjevo dialect (was spoken in Janjevo by the Janjevci, Kosovo Croats, a Croatian subgroup that speaks a Torlakian dialect) Letnica dialect (spoken in several settlements historically inhabited by the Letničani, Kosovo Croats; they were Laramans, that is, crypto-Christians, specifically crypto-Catholics in their case, in the municipality of Viti, Kosovo; a Croatian subgroup that speaks a Torlakian dialect) Prizren (spoken by many Kosovo Serbs of South Kosovo, including the Serbs of Prizren) West South Morava dialect diaspora Karashevski (spoken by the Krashovani, a Croatian subgroup that speaks a Torlakian dialect, in Banat, southwest Romania, a Slavic language enclave) Svriljig-Zaplanje Timok-Lužnica / Eastern Torlakian Macedonian Torlakian / Northern Slavic Macedonian dialects (in Kumanovo, Kratovo, Kriva Palanka) (are closer to Torlakian and not to Standard Slavic Macedonian) Eastern group Kumanovo dialect Kratovo dialect Kriva Palanka dialect Ovče Pole dialect Western group Skopska Crna Gora dialect Tetovo dialect (Lower Polog) (overlaps with Albanian language area) Gora dialect (Našinski jezik) (spoken by the Gorani people in Gora region, an ethnic and linguistic Slavic majority region in far southern Kosovo) Transitional Bulgarian dialects (transitional between Torlakian and Slavic Bulgarian but are considered closer to Torlakian) (in Belogradchik; Dimitrovgrad, Serbia; Godech; Tran; Bosilegrad) Tran dialect Breznik dialect Belogradchik dialect Bosilegrad dialect Tsaribrod dialect / Dimitrovgrad dialect (of Bulgaria) Eastern South Slavic / Southeast South Slavic (dialect continuum) Old Eastern South Slavic / Old Slavonic / Old Slavic / Old Bulgarian (ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ ⰧⰈⰟⰊⰍⰟ]] – Cловѣ́ньскъ ѩꙁꙑ́къ – Slověnĭskŭ Językŭ) (extinct) (the language that is inaccurately called Church Slavonic was not only or not exclusively a liturgical or sacred language as it was the Old Eastern South Slavic language, common ancestor of Slavic Bulgarian and Slavic Macedonian languages) (it was the neighbouring Slavic