Tuone Udaina

Tuone Udaina (died June 10, 1898; Antonio Udina in Italian) was the last speaker of the Dalmatian language.[1] [2] He was the main source of knowledge about his parents' dialect, that of the island of Veglia (Krk in Croatian), for the linguist Matteo Bartoli, who recorded it in 1897. Vegliot Dalmatian was Udaina's native language, as he had learned it from listening to his parents' private conversations. Udina had not spoken the Dalmatian language for nearly 20 years at the time he acted as a linguistic informant. Antonio Udina worked as a barber, and he was called Burbur ('barber' in Dalmatian) because of it.[3]

When Antonio Udina was killed in an industrial explosion on June 10, 1898, the language became extinct.[4]

References

  1. ^ Roegiest, Eugeen (2006). Vers les sources des langues romanes: un itinéraire linguistique à. ACCO. pp. 138. isbn=9033460947. http://books.google.com/books?id=hMdz09HGd8kC&pg=PA138&dq=%22Tuone+Udaina%22+-wikipedia. 
  2. ^ Brahms, William B. (2005). Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations and Final Events throughout History. Original from the University of Michigan: Reference Desk Press. pp. 183. http://books.google.com/books?id=wIwYAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Tuone+Udaina%22+-wikipedia. 
  3. ^ Hildegard Temporini; Wolfgang Haase (1983). Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Principat. Sprache und Literatur. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1129–. ISBN 9783110095258. http://books.google.com/books?id=6GO3qtZGcRcC&pg=PA1129. Retrieved 21 February 2011. 
  4. ^ Paul D. Blanc (3 January 2007). How everyday products make people sick: toxins at home and in the workplace. University of California Press. pp. 268–. ISBN 9780520248816. http://books.google.com/books?id=dkPCKaci8SIC&pg=PA268. Retrieved 21 February 2011.