Dalmatian Romance

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Dalmatian Romance was an extinct Romance language once spoken along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, known primarily from the speech of its last native speaker, Tuone Udaina.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Dalmatian Romance canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
extinct language
alsoKnownAs Dalmatian
linked to: Dalmatians

Dalmatic
causeOfExtinction language shift to Croatian
language shift to Venetian
closelyRelatedTo Istriot
Italian
country Croatia
distinctFrom Croatian
Venetian
linked to: Venetian language
documentationMethod fieldwork with Tuone Udaina
documentedBy Matteo Bartoli
extinctionDate 1898
geographicDistribution Adriatic coast
glottologStatus listed as extinct
historicalPeriod Early modern period
Middle Ages
ISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code
languageBranch Italic
languageFamily Indo-European
languageGroup Romance
lastNativeSpeaker Tuone Udaina
lexicalInfluenceFrom Croatian
Italian
Latin
Venetian
linked to: Istrian Venetian
morphologicalFeature Romance-type verb conjugations
retention of some Latin case distinctions in pronouns
namedAfter Dalmatia
partOf Indo-European languages
Romance languages
phonologicalFeature palatalization of Latin /k/ and /g/ before front vowels
primarySourceSpeaker Tuone Udaina
region Dalmatia
spokenIn Croatia
Dalmatian coast
Ragusa
Ragusa Vecchia
linked to: Ragusa

Spalato
Trau
Veglia
Zara
status extinct
subfamilyOf Italo-Dalmatian languages
syntacticFeature basic SVO word order
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Tuone Udaina heritageLanguage Dalmatian Romance
Vegliot dialect partOf Dalmatian Romance
Judeo-Dalmatian subclassOf Dalmatian Romance