Talk:Istriot language
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Is this a real language, or just an Italian dialect? Is it more closely related to Italian, or to Friulian? john k 15:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Of course it's not an Italian dialect, the only real dialects of Italian that exist are Corsican and Gaddurese & Sassarese (those both considered dialects of Corsican but spoken on the northern coast of Sardigna. Every other local 'dialect' spoken in Italy is actually a distinct Romance language like Sicilian, Neapolitan, Piemonteis, etc. which have been repressed since unification out of fears that they would encourage separatist movements. Ironically the Northern League uses this language repression as a political tool, encouraging the northern Italians to learn their local Gallo-Italic languages.
I actually came here to ask if Istriot was more closely related to Venetian or Dalmation; is it a transitional language between the two or only close to one? Seek100 17:29, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
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- It's a good question and I would like to know as well. We know that it is not related to Istro-Romanian, but that can be put down to the fact that Istro-Romanian ancestors arrived about a thousands years ago, where-as Istriot ancestors may have been there before the Slavs - or possibly they came along with the Venetians and are descendants from old Venice. There again, extinct Dalmatian is said to have been a link between western and eastern Romance languages and so the Romanian may be the one which is actually connected to Dalmatian and not Istriot. Istriot's origin is as yet obscure and I cannot clarify its connection to related near-by dialects unless someone throws light. 212.24.91.2 16:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
