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Istro-Romanian
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Romance language of the Balkans
Key facts
- Native to
- Croatia
- Region
- Istria
- Ethnicity
- Istro-Romanians
- Native speakers
- 300 (2007) , L2 speakers : 1,100 (2007)
- Language family
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Eastern Romance Northern Romanian? Istro-Romanian
- Early forms
- Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Common Romanian
- Iso 639 3
- ruo
- Glottolog
- istr1245
- Elp
- Istro Romanian
- Linguasphere
- (varieties: 51-AAD-aa to -ab) 51-AAD-a (varieties: 51-AAD-aa to -ab)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Istro-Romanian language (vlåški, žejånski) is an Eastern Romance language, spoken in a few villages and hamlets in the peninsula of Istria in Croatia, as well as in the diaspora of this people. It is sometimes abbreviated to IR.
While its speakers call themselves Rumeri, Rumeni, they are also known as Vlachs, Rumunski, Ćići and Ćiribiri. The last one, used by ethnic Croats, originated as a disparaging nickname for the language, rather than its speakers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Istro-Romanian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.