Istriot language

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Istriot bumbaro, vallese, rovignese, sissanese, fasanese, gallesanese
Spoken in:	Istria
Total speakers:	1,000-2,000
Language family:	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Italo-Dalmatian Istriot
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`roa`
ISO 639-3:	`ist`
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Istriot is a Romance language spoken in the Western Region on the coast of the Istrian Peninsula, especially in the towns of Rovinj (Rovigno) and Vodnjan (Dignano), on the upper northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.

Its classification remains unclear due to the lack of scientific data. Istriot can be viewed:

as an independent Italo-Dalmatian language
as a Northern Italian dialect.^[who?]
as a Venetian sub-dialect (within Northern Italian).^[who?]
as an independent Romance language.^[who?]
as a transition variety between Venetian (Northern Italian) and the now extinct Dalmatian language.^[who?]

Its speakers never called it "Istriot". It had six names after the six towns where it was spoken: In Dignano it was named "Bumbaro", in Valle (Bale) "Vallese", in Rovigno "Rovignese", in Sissano "Sissanese", in Fasana "Fasanese" and in Gallesano "Gallesanese". The name Istriot was given by the 19th century Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli.

There are currently only about 1,000 speakers left, thus making it an endangered language.

[edit] See also

Istro–Romanian, is another Romance language spoken in this area, but is not especially related to Istriot.

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Romance languages

Eastern

Romanian (Moldovan, Vlach) ♦ Aromanian ♦ Megleno-Romanian ♦ Istro-Romanian

Southern

Sassarese ♦ Sardinian (Campidanese, Logudorese)

Italo-
Western

Italo-
Dalmatian

Italian (Central Italian, Tuscan, Corsican cismontano, Romanesco) ♦ Dalmatian † ♦ Istriot ♦ Judeo-Italian ♦ Neapolitan (Calabrian), ♦ Sicilian

Gallo-
Iberian

Gallo- Italian	Emiliano-Romagnolo ♦ Ligurian (Genoese, Monégasque) ♦ Lombard (Eastern, Western, Gallo-siculo) ♦ Piedmontese ♦ Venetian

Gallo- Rhaetian	French ♦ Franco-Provençal ♦ other Oïl (Burgundian, Champenois, Franc-Comtois, Gallo, Lorrain, Norman, Picard, Poitevin, Saintongeais, Walloon) ♦ Rhaeto-Romance (Friulian, Ladin, Romansh)

Oc	Catalan (Algherese, Balearic, Central, Valencian) ♦ Occitan (Auvergnat, Gascon, Languedocien, Limousin, Vivaro-Alpine, Provençal, Shuadit †)

Iberian	Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Cantabrian, Extremaduran, Leonese, Mirandese) ♦ Portuguese* (inc. Barranquenho) & Galician (inc. Fala, Eonavian) ♦ Spanish (Castilian)* (Latin American, Peninsular, incl. Ladino, Caló)