Dalmatian language

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The Dalmatian language was an extinct Romance language once spoken along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, known from only a few historical records.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
extinct language
ancestor Vulgar Latin
closelyRelatedTo Istriot language
Italian language
Romanian language
country Croatia
derivedFrom Latin
documentationPeriod 19th century
documentedBy Matthias Bartoli
documentedIn linguistic field notes
short texts
word lists
earliestAttestation 13th century
extinction 19th century
family Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
glottocode dalm1243
hasDialect Vegliot dialect
surface form: Ragusan dialect

Vegliot dialect
hasFeature lexical influence from Venetian and Croatian
retention of some Latin case distinctions in pronouns
use of definite articles derived from Latin demonstratives
hasMorphologicalFeature loss of Latin neuter gender
hasPhonologicalFeature palatalization of Latin /k/ and /g/ before front vowels
hasSyntacticFeature predominantly SVO word order
historicalRegion Dalmatia
influencedBy Italian dialects
Slavic languages
Venetian language
iso639-3 dlm
languageBranch Eastern Romance
languageCodeStandard ISO 639
surface form: ISO 639-3
lastKnownSpeaker Tuone Udaina
lastSpeakerDeath 1898
linguisticTypology fusional language
synthetic language
partOf Romance-speaking world
region Adriatic Sea
Dalmatia
surface form: Dalmatian coast
spokenIn Kotor region
Krk Island
Ragusa (Dubrovnik)
Zadar
surface form: Zadar region
status extinct
subclassOf Italo-Dalmatian language
timeDepth medieval period
writingSystem Latin script

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Romance languages includeLanguage Dalmatian language