Vegliot Dalmatian

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Vegliot Dalmatian was an extinct Romance language formerly spoken along the Dalmatian coast, specifically on the island of Veglia (modern Krk). It was a dialect of Dalmatian, which itself is an extinct language. The Vegliot dialect became extinct in the 19th century. The broader Dalmatian language likely disappeared due to replacement by Croatian and Venetian.12

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Dalmatian language
…in the 17th century; the Vegliot Dalmatian dialect became extinct in the 19th century.
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…in the 17th century; the Vegliot Dalmatian dialect became extinct in the 19th century.
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Romance languages
Languages of the family
Vegliot Dalmatian was not his native language, and he had learned it only from listening to his parents’ private conversations. Moreover, he had not spoken the language for 20 years at the time he acted as an informant, and he was deaf and toothless as…
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Vegliot Dalmatian was not his native language, and he had learned it only from listening to his parents’ private conversations. Moreover, he had not spoken the language for 20 years at the time he acted as an informant, and he was deaf and toothless as…
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