A whole range of influences can be heard in the daily conversations in Vinkovci – from Šokača ikavica, Turkish and German loanwords, to a multitude of specific localisms. For example, someone here tells you to go to budica.
In the 1970s and 1980s Vinkovci had the status of one of the most important railway hubs in Europe. At that time trains would leave this station every four minutes, sometimes there were as many as 360 trains a day. This means that the daily flow at the railway station was about 50,000 passengers!
Many famous people were born, educated, or lived in Vinkovci – writers, composers, painters and sculptors, actors and film directors.
The width and depth of the Slavonian soul is beautifully reflected in local speech, primarily the original speech of Šokci.
