
Slavomolisano
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thumb|right|Bilingual street sign in Montemitro in Italian and Molise Croatian Slavomolisano, also known as Molise Slavic or Molise Croatian (; ), is a variety of Shtokavian Croatian spoken by Italian Croats in three villages – Montemitro (), Acquaviva Collecroce () and San Felice del Molise () – in the province of Campobasso, in the Molise Region of southern Italy. There are fewer than 1,000 active speakers, and fewer than 2,000 passive speakers.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Slavomolisano
- Language.altname
- Molise Slavic, Molise Croatian
- Language.states
- Italy
- Language.region
- Molise
- Language.ethnicity
- Molise Croats
- Language.speakers
- < 1,000
- Language.date
- 2012
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Balto-Slavic
- Language.fam3
- Slavic
- Language.fam4
- South Slavic
- Language.fam5
- Western
- Language.fam6
- Shtokavian
- Language.fam7
- Neo-Shtokavian
- Language.fam8
- Younger Ikavian
- Language.script
- Latin
- Language.iso3
- svm
- Language.glotto
- slav1254
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- History
- Features
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Samples
- Dictionaries
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|Bilingual street sign in Montemitro in Italian and Molise Croatian Slavomolisano, also known as Molise Slavic or Molise Croatian (; ), is a variety of Shtokavian Croatian spoken by Italian Croats in three villages – Montemitro (), Acquaviva Collecroce () and San Felice del Molise () – in the province of Campobasso, in the Molise Region of southern Italy. There are fewer than 1,000 active speakers, and fewer than 2,000 passive speakers.
It has been preserved since a group of Croats emigrated from Dalmatia due to the advancing Ottoman Turks. The residents of these villages speak a Shtokavian Younger Ikavian dialect with a strong Southern Chakavian adstratum. The Molise Croats consider themselves to be Slavic Italians, with South Slavic heritage and who speak a Slavic language, rather than simply ethnic Slavs or Croats. Some speakers call themselves or and call their language simply ("our language").
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