Vegliot dialect

E125759

The Vegliot dialect is an extinct variety of the Dalmatian Romance language once spoken on the island of Krk (Veglia) in the Adriatic Sea.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Ragusan dialect 1
Vegliot dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance dialect
extinct language variety
alternativeName Vegliot Dalmatian
Veglia
surface form: Vegliote
belongsTo Dalmatian language
surface form: Dalmatian linguistic area
causeOfExtinction Venetian influence
language shift to Croatian
closelyRelatedTo Ragusan dialect of Dalmatian
other Dalmatian varieties
country Croatia
documentedBy linguists in the 19th century
endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction severely endangered
ethnicGroup Romance-speaking inhabitants of Krk
extinctionType language death
glottologStatus treated as variety of Dalmatian
hasAncestor Latin
Proto-Romance language
surface form: Proto-Romance

Vulgar Latin
hasDescendant none (no living descendants)
hasType minority island dialect
historicalContext Romance enclave on a predominantly Slavic-speaking island
ISOStatus no separate ISO 639-3 code (usually grouped under Dalmatian)
languageFamily Romance languages
linguisticFeature lexical influence from Croatian
lexical influence from Venetian
mixture of Italo-Romance and Balkan Romance traits
moreDistantlyRelatedTo Istriot
Italian
Romanian language
surface form: Romanian

Venetian language
surface form: Venetian

other Romance languages
namedAfter Krk
surface form: Veglia (Italian name for Krk)
notableFor evidence for the Dalmatian branch of Romance
partOf Dalmatian Romance
region Kvarner Gulf
Dalmatia
surface form: Northern Dalmatia
replacedBy Croatian
Venetian language
surface form: Venetian
spokenIn Adriatic Sea
surface form: Adriatic Sea region

Veglia
island of Krk
status extinct
studiedIn Romance linguistics
historical linguistics
subclassOf Dalmatian language
subfamily Italo-Dalmatian language
surface form: Italo-Dalmatian languages
timePeriod Early Modern period
surface form: Early modern period

Middle Ages
use everyday speech of Romance community on Krk
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Dalmatian language hasDialect Vegliot dialect
this entity surface form: Ragusan dialect
Dalmatian language hasDialect Vegliot dialect