Istriot language

E125758

The Istriot language is a severely endangered Romance language once spoken along the southwestern coast of the Istrian peninsula, notable for its archaic features and debated classification within the Italo-Dalmatian group.

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Label Occurrences
Istriot language canonical 4

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
minority language
severely endangered language
classificationStatus debated
currentTransmission largely not transmitted to younger generations
distinctFrom Istrian Italian dialects
Istrian dialects of Croatian
Venetian language
endangermentStatus moribund
severely endangered
hasAlternativeName Istriano (in some Italian sources)
Istriot
surface form: Istrioto
hasArchaicFeatures lexicon
morphology
phonology
hasBeenClassifiedAs Italo-Dalmatian language
Rhaeto-Romance language (in some proposals)
Venetian-related variety (in some proposals)
hasISOCode ISO 639-3: ist
hasTypologicalFeature Latin-derived vocabulary
Romance-type verb conjugation
gender and number agreement
historicalRegion Istria
influencedBy Croatian
surface form: Croatian language

Italian language
Venetian language
languageFamily Indo-European
Italo-Dalmatian language
surface form: Italo-Dalmatian

Romance
listedIn UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
numberOfSpeakers very few hundred or fewer
partOf Romance branch of the Indo-European language family
primaryUse oral communication
region southwestern coast of Istria
spokenIn Croatia
Istria
surface form: Istrian peninsula

southwestern Istria
statusInCroatia recognized minority or regional language (limited local use)
subclassOf Indo-European language
Italo-Dalmatian language
threatenedBy language shift to Croatian
language shift to Italian
traditionalCenter Bale
Fažana
Galižana
Rovinj
Vodnjan
Šišan
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Dalmatian language closelyRelatedTo Istriot language
Istria hasMinorityLanguage Istriot language
Italo-Dalmatian language hasPart Istriot language
subject surface form: Italo-Dalmatian languages
Venetian language closelyRelatedTo Istriot language