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Also known as Molise Croatian, Slavomolisano dialect, Molise Slavic

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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11 sections
Contents
  • 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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