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Istriot is a Romance language spoken by about 400 people in the southwestern part of the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia, particularly in Rovinj and Vodnjan. It should not be confused with the Istrian dialect of the Venetian language. ==Classification== Istriot is a Romance language related to the Ladin populations of the Alps. According to the Italian linguist Matteo Bartoli, the Ladin area used to extend – until the year 1000 AD – from southern Istria to Friuli and eastern Switzerland.〔Bartoli, Matteo. ''Le parlate italiane della Venezia Giulia e della Dalmazia''. Tipografia italo-orientale. Grottaferrata 1919.〕 Its classification remains unclear, due to the specificities of the language, which has always had a very limited number of speakers. Istriot can be viewed: * as an independent Northern Italian language, belonging neither to the Venetian language nor to the Gallo-Italic group (opinion shared by linguists Tullio De Mauro and Maurizio Dardano); * as a dialect of the Rhaeto-Romance languages by the Istriot Antonio Ive〔 * as an independent language of the Italo-Dalmatian group〔(Ethnologue entry for Istriot )〕 * as an autochthonous Romance language heavily influenced by Venetian, Friulian and Slavic superstrates by Mirko Deanović When Istria was a region of the Kingdom of Italy, Istriot was considered by the authorities as a subdialect of Venetian.〔Tagliavini, Carlo. ''Le origini delle lingue neolatine''. Patron Ed. Bologna 1982.〕 Its speakers never referred to it as "Istriot". Traditionally, it had six names after the six towns where it was spoken. In Vodnjan it was named "Bumbaro", in Bale "Vallese", in Rovinj "Rovignese", in Šišan "Sissanese", in Fažana "Fasanese" and in Galižana "Gallesanese". The term Istriot was coined by the 19th-century Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli. There are about 1,000 speakers left, making it an endangered language. 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「Istriot language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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