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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, though in later times Venetian (representing the Romance language population), then Serbo-Croatian (for the Slavophone population) came to supersede it. Dalmatian speakers lived in the coastal towns Zadar ('), Trogir ('), Spalato (Split; '), Ragusa (Dubrovnik; '), and Kotor ('), each of these cities having a local dialect, and on the islands of Krk ('), Cres (') and Rab ('). ==Dialects== 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 dialect=== 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 mediaeval texts, which show a language influenced heavily by Venetian. The available sources include some 260 Ragusan words including ' ("bread"), ' ("father"), ' ("house"), and ' ("to do"), which were quoted by the Dalmatian Filippo Diversi, the rector of Ragusa in the 1430s. The Maritime Republic of Ragusa had, at one time, an important fleet, but its influence decreased over time, to the point that, by the 15th century, it had been reduced to only about 300 ships.〔''Notizie Istorico-Critiche Sulla Antichita, Storia, e Letteratura de' Ragusei'', Francesco Maria Appendini, 1803.〕 The language was in trouble in the face of Slav expansion, as the Ragusan Senate decided that all debates had to be held in ' (ancient Ragusan language) and the use of the ''Slav'' was forbidden. Nevertheless, in the 16th century, Ragusan fell out of use and almost extinct. ===Vegliot dialect=== Vegliot (the native name being ')〔Bartoli, 2000〕 is the Northern dialect. The language's name is derived from the Italian name of Krk, ', an island in Kvarner, called ''Vikla'' in Vegliot. On the inscription dating from the beginning of the fourth century, Krk is named as ''ラテン語:Splendissima civitas Curictarum''. The Serbo-Croatian name derives from the Roman name (''ラテン語:Curicum, Curicta''), whereas the younger title ' (meaning 英語:"Old Town") was created in the mediaeval Romanesque period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dalmatian language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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