
Slavomolisano
Sign in to saveAlso known as Molise Croatian, Slavomolisano dialect, Molise Slavic
thumb|right|Bilingual street sign in Montemitro in Italian and Molise Croatian Slavomolisano, also known as Molise Slavic or Molise Croatian (; ), is a variety of Shtokavian Croatian spoken by Italian Croats in three villages – Montemitro (), Acquaviva Collecroce () and San Felice del Molise () – in the province of Campobasso, in the Molise Region of southern Italy. There are fewer than 1,000 active speakers, and fewer than 2,000 passive speakers.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Slavomolisano
- Language.altname
- Molise Slavic, Molise Croatian
- Language.states
- Italy
- Language.region
- Molise
- Language.ethnicity
- Molise Croats
- Language.speakers
- < 1,000
- Language.date
- 2012
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Balto-Slavic
- Language.fam3
- Slavic
- Language.fam4
- South Slavic
- Language.fam5
- Western
- Language.fam6
- Shtokavian
- Language.fam7
- Neo-Shtokavian
- Language.fam8
- Younger Ikavian
- Language.script
- Latin
- Language.iso3
- svm
- Language.glotto
- slav1254
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Samples
- Dictionaries
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|Bilingual street sign in Montemitro in Italian and Molise Croatian Slavomolisano, also known as Molise Slavic or Molise Croatian (; ), is a variety of Shtokavian Croatian spoken by Italian Croats in three villages – Montemitro (), Acquaviva Collecroce () and San Felice del Molise () – in the province of Campobasso, in the Molise Region of southern Italy. There are fewer than 1,000 active speakers, and fewer than 2,000 passive speakers.
It has been preserved since a group of Croats emigrated from Dalmatia due to the advancing Ottoman Turks. The residents of these villages speak a Shtokavian Younger Ikavian dialect with a strong Southern Chakavian adstratum. The Molise Croats consider themselves to be Slavic Italians, with South Slavic heritage and who speak a Slavic language, rather than simply ethnic Slavs or Croats. Some speakers call themselves or and call their language simply ("our language").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Slavomolisano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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