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Dalmatian was a Romance language that was spoken along the Adriatic coast until it died out in the early 20th century. It matters to linguists and historians because studying its structure and vocabulary helps them understand how Latin evolved into different languages across the Mediterranean region.
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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. However, the classification of Dalmatian is not settled.
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