Vegliot Dalmatian

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Vegliot Dalmatian was an extinct Romance language once spoken on the island of Krk in the Adriatic, representing the northernmost variety of the Dalmatian language.

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Vegliot Dalmatian canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
extinct language
alternativeName Krk Dalmatian
Vegliote
Vegliotic
causeOfExtinction language shift to Croatian
language shift to Venetian and Italian
classifiedAs endangered language (historically, before extinction)
closelyRelatedTo Ragusan Dalmatian
linked to: Krk Dalmatian
country Croatia
culturalAssociation Romance-speaking community of Krk
documentationMethod field notes from last speaker Tuone Udaina
documentationStatus poorly documented
documentedBy Matthias Bartoli
extinctionDate 19th century
geographicDistribution Krk, Croatia
linked to: Krk Island

Northern Dalmatia
linked to: Dalmatia
hasVarietyWithin Dalmatian language continuum
linked to: Dalmatian language
historicalContext developed in Roman and post-Roman Dalmatia
influencedBy Croatian
Italian
Venetian
ISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code
languageBranch Italo-Dalmatian languages
languageContact Slavic languages
Venetian
linked to: Venetian language
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Italic languages
Romance languages
lastKnownSpeaker Tuone Udaina
lastSpeakerDeathDate 1898
lexicalSimilarity Istriot
Italian
Romanian
morphologicalFeature Romance-type verb conjugations
gender distinction masculine–feminine
northernmostVarietyOf Dalmatian language
originatedFrom Vulgar Latin
phonologicalFeature palatalization of Latin /k/ and /g/ before front vowels
region Kvarner Gulf
researchField Romance linguistics
historical linguistics
spokenIn Adriatic Sea region
linked to: Adriatic Sea

island of Krk
status extinct
subdivisionOf Dalmatian language
syntacticFeature basic SVO word order
timeDepth attested mainly in late 19th century
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tuone Udaina lastSpeakerOf Vegliot Dalmatian
Vegliot dialect alternativeName Vegliot Dalmatian