Shtokavian or
Štokavian (; , ) is the
prestige dialect of the pluricentric
Serbo-Croatian language, and the basis of its
Bosnian,
Croatian,
Serbian, and
Montenegrin standards. It is a part of the South Slavic dialect continuum. Its name comes from the form for the interrogatory pronoun for "what" in Western Shtokavian,
što (it is
šta in Eastern Shtokavian). This is in contrast to the
Kajkavian and
Chakavian dialects (
kaj and
ca also meaning "what").