Dalmatian language

Dalmatian or Dalmatic ; Dalmatian: langa dalmata or simply ; ] The remain to talked to a tribe of the Illyrian linguistic group, Dalmatae. The Ragusan dialect of Dalmatian, the nearly studied prestige dialect, was the official language of the Republic of Ragusa for much of its medieval history until it was gradually supplanted by other local languages.

Dalmatian speakers lived in the coastal towns of ]

Literature

As Dalmatian was mainly an oral language, there is not much literature preserved in it; only some fragments collected in a book by Antonio Ive & a few unpublished texts in archives still unknown to the public. But there are some works written in revived Dalmatian, as, for example, the short poetry book "Adi la raipa de mi jeuntut".[]

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