Chakavian or Cakavian or ( , proper name: cakavica or cakavština , own name: cokovski, cakavski, cekavski) is a dialect of the Croatian language spoken by a minority of Croats. It has low mutual intelligibility with the Shtokavian dialect. There is much internal diversity, to the point where intelligibility between the northern and southern varieties of Chakavian is low. All three main Croatian dialects are named after their word for "what?", which in Cakavian is ca or ca. Chakavian is spoken mainly in the northeastern Adriatic: in Istria, Kvarner Gulf, in most Adriatic islands, and in the interior valley of Gacka, more sporadically in the Dalmatian littoral and central Croatia.