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Dalmatian language

Dalmatian (or Dalmatic) was a Romance language spoken in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro. The name refers to a pre-Roman tribe of the Illyrian linguistic group, Dalmatae. The Ragusan dialect of Dalmatian was the official language of the Republic of Ragusa, although in later times this came to be superseded by Italian (representing the Romance language population) or Croatian (for the Slavophone population).

Dalmatian speakers lived in the coastal towns: Zadar, Trogira, Spalato (Split), Ragusa (Dubrovnik), and Kotor (Jadera, Tragur, Spalatro, Raugia and Cattaro), each of these cities having a local dialect, and on the islands of Krk, Cres and Rab (Vikla, Crepsa and Arba).

Almost every city developed its own dialect. Most of these became extinct before they were recorded, so the only trace of these ancient dialects is some words borrowed into local dialects of today's Croatia.

Ragusan is the Southern dialect, whose name is derived from the Romance name of Dubrovnik, Ragusa. It came to the attention of modern scholars in two letters, from 1325 and 1397, and other medieval texts, which show a language influenced heavily by Venetian. The available sources include some 260 Ragusan words including pen (bread), teta (father), chesa (house) and fachir (to do), which were quoted by the Dalmatian Filippo Diversi, the rector of Ragusa in the 1430s.