Istriot language
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| Istriot | ||
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| bumbaro, vallese, rovignese, sissanese, fasanese, gallesanese | ||
| Spoken in | Istria | |
| Total speakers | 1,000-2,000 | |
| Language family | Indo-European
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | roa | |
| ISO 639-3 | ist | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Istriot is a Romance language spoken in the Western Region on the coast of the Istrian Peninsula, especially in the towns of Rovinj (Italian: Rovigno) and Vodnjan (Italian: Dignano), on the upper northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
Its classification remains unclear, due to the specificities of the language, which has always had a very limited number of speakers. Istriot can be viewed:
- as an independent Northern Italian dialect, not belonging either to the Venetian dialect nor to the Gallo-Italic group (opinion shared by linguists Tullio De Mauro and Maurizio Dardano);
- as a transition variety between the Northern Italian Venetian dialect and the now extinct Dalmatian language;[by whom?]
- as an independent language of the Italo-Dalmatian group;
- as an independent Romance language.[by whom?]
Its speakers never called it "Istriot". Traditionally, it had six names after the six towns where it was spoken. In Vodnjan it was named "Bumbaro", in Bale "Vallese", in Rovinj "Rovignese", in Šišan "Sissanese", in Fažana "Fasanese" and in Galižana "Gallesanese". The term Istriot was coined by the 19th century Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli.
There are currently only about 1,000 speakers left, probably making it an endangered language.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report for Istriot
- Istria on the Internet — Linguistics
- Istriot Language Map (distribution)
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