| Description:
Istriot is a Romance language spoken in the Western Region on the coast of the Istrian Peninsula, especially in the towns of Rovinj (Italian: Rovigno) and Vodnjan (Italian: Dignano), on the upper northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
Its classification remains unclear, due to the specificities of the language, which has always had a very limited number of speakers. Istriot can be viewed:
Its speakers never called it "Istriot". Traditionally, it had six names after the six towns where it was spoken. In Vodnjan it was named "Bumbaro", in Bale "Vallese", in Rovinj "Rovignese", in Šišan "Sissanese", in Fažana "Fasanese" and in Galižana "Gallesanese". The term Istriot was coined by the 19th century Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli.
There are currently only about 1,000 speakers left, thus making it an endangered language...... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Istriot Language Speakers
<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="48.915627" lon="12.577602" type="map">
44.831255, 16.155204, Croatia
53.000000, 9.000000, Europe</googlemap>
|