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From: rturkel@cas.org (Rick Turkel)
Subject: Re: re. origins magyar and others
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In article <3ngl18$9ld@news.cict.fr>,
CLARY Olivier <clary@sesostris.meteo.fr> wrote:
>In article <9503177981.AA798158849@ccmailx.halsp.hitachi.com> tomescuc@halsp.hitachi.com writes:
>| clary@sesostris.meteo.fr (CLARY Olivier) wrote:
>| >[...] Dalmatian, a neo-Latin language that has been spoken on the now
>| >Croatian coast [...]  Has anybody heard about this?
>| i did - from a friend from croatia.  actually, she is from around Pula
>| (romanians, please don't laugh:-) in istria, and her father spoke a
>| language which she says is quite close to romanian.  the croatians
>| call these people vlachs [...]
>| -cristian
>
>No, these are Romanian dialects, like those found in a few places in the
>Balkans, Aromanians and such, they are small communities, for instance
>in Northern Greece. What I had in mind was - I think - neither Italian
>nor Romanian dialect, and has been extinct for centuries. I do not know
>more, about its linguistic situation compared with It. and R., or about
>its extension at its end or when going back in time. This is why I am
>cross-posting to sci.lang, hoping a linguist can answer.
>
>-- Olivier


If I'm not mistaken, Dalmatian went extinct some time during the last
century.  It's said that the Croatian dialect of the Dalmatian coast
contains some mangled Italian words, but I'd guess they're more likely
to be remnants of Dalmatian.
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