
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.
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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").
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).