Dalmatian

Dalmatian or Dalmatic (Dalmatian: dalmato, Italian: dalmatico, Croatian: dalmatski) is a group of now-extinct Romance language varieties that developed along the coast of Dalmatia, in the area of modern-day Croatia. Over the centuries they were increasingly influenced, and then supplanted, by Croatian and Venetian.

Today it is quite difficult to place Dalmatian within the Romance language landscape, where it somehow constitutes a branch of its own. In one of the most recent classifications, dating back to 2017, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History places it, for example, together with Istriot in the Italo-Dalmatian Romance subgroup, with the most recent classification adding Venetian to this proposal. However, the classification of Dalmatian is not settled.

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