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Istriot language

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Istriot is a Romance language spoken in the Istrian Peninsula of Croatia. It is precariously surviving with fewer than one thousand speakers. Some scholars connect it with Rhaetian Friulian dialects or Venetian dialects of Italian, while others maintain it is an independent language. There are no texts except those collected by linguists.1

Istro-Romanian is another Romance dialect spoken in the same peninsula, with about 300 mother tongue speakers in the early 21st century, and is also threatened with extinction. It is usually classified as a Romanian dialect and may have been brought to the Istrian Peninsula by Romanians fleeing the Turks in the 16th and 17th centuries, and it has been heavily influenced by Croatian.21

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  1. Romanian language
  2. Istrian
  3. Romance languages - Languages of the family

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