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just found the article on the wikipedia about the Kajkavian dialect. a central sentence seems to be: "Although speakers of Kajkavian are Croats, and Kajkavian is considered a dialect of Serbo-Croatian, its closest relative is the Slovene language, followed by Chakavian and then Shtokavian. Kajkavian is part of a dialect continuum with both Slovene and Chakavian."

AFAIK the South Slavic languages became literary languages mostly in the 19th century. Is there any PoD that might lead to the Kajkavian dialect being used to create a common language of the Slovenes and Croats of Croatia Proper, with lesser influence from the people of Slavonia and Dalmatia and even less for the Serbs?

Assume that I know very little about languages beyond this. I mainly look at it for the implied political results, like the Slovenes and Croats feeling far less as relatives of especially the not-even-catholic Serbs if they don't share a language.
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