What about Dalmatian?
Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are a single language: Serbo-Croat. Of course regional dialects exist, as they do in any other language, but a different dialect is not a different language. For example, 'Croatian' spoken in Zagreb and 'Serbian' spoken in Belgrade are almost identical - contrast that with the Dalmatian dialect which is so much more different from the other Serbo-Croat dialects that it comes closest to qualifying as a distinct language. And yet - even though a lot of people speak it, it doesn't exist as an official language. What a joke!Actually, it would be a joke if it were not for the fact that the various governments, having got new names for an old language, are now hell-bent to introduce new words and rules to make those languages different.As there seems to be a languages free-for-all, perhaps we should get Dalmatian officially recognised as a language - then I could add it to my CV!
Sent by: Olga
Comments
To everyone, who believes that Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian are different languages -
I used Google's translator and wikipedia's articles to check it.
As far as I have tried - ALL TEXTS IN 'Bosanski', 'Hrvatski' and 'Srpskohrvatski' this Google's translator INTERPRETES AS ONE 'CROATIAN' !!!!! :-))).
Only 'Srpski' is interpreted as 'Serbian' - but, as I suppose - it is ONLY because of different type of letters (Cyrillic alphabet), but not words or grammar.
Isn't funny, that because of your nationalistic quarrels you - Southern Slavs - want to deny the fact, that you speak one language, divided maybe just to different dialects?
The last speaker of Dalmatian, a Romance language, died on Krk sometime in the late 19th Century. The language spoken today in, e.g., Split, is a Slavonic language, mutually intelligible with (take your pick !) Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian...different rici/rijeci/reci aside. Neither is "Texan" a language.
In Bosnia, all nations i.e. Croatians, Serbians and Bosniaks speak a mixture of both - Croatian and Serbian standards.
Dalmatian language may have existed in several hundred years ago - but today this is an extinct language.
Croatian region of Dalmatia is inhabited by Croatian people who speak Croatian dialect called Dalmatian and who identify themselves as Croatians from Dalmatia.
I am from Macedonia. I was this year in central Dalmatia. I have learned Dalmatian only a little bit because I was just 14 days in Croatia on holiday. I'd like to learn more of Dalmatian because If I go again next year I'd like to talk with kids from dalmatia and of course I'd like to meet new kids from Dalmatia. So, how can I learn Dalmatian??
Dalmatian is not Croatian. It has nothing to do with ancient or modern Croatian and it is more like Latin and Venetian than our Serbo-Croat language, imposed in recent times by our Government. We must save the Dalmatian language, still spoken by small minorities, because the communists driven by Tito and modern nationalists destroyed everything about our ancient culture. The worst thing is that they replaced it with croatian language. But our root can be found in the Regnum Illyricum.
thank you marijanna
exactly what I want to say ...
but why do we want to separate??
why do dalmatians want to separate from "croatia"?
isn't dalmatia croatia??
"imam dvije domovine"
we all fought together to bring croatia to what it is today
I'm Italian and I speak Serbo-Croatian... I am totally in love with Bosnians, Croatians and Serbs (in alphabetical order) and their cultures. I speak that one language and have no problems in any of those countries and have fluent conversations anywhere I go... Should I assume I am magically speaking 3 languages at once and put on my CV 3 languages as Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian will count separately? Then I am wondering how many languages we are speaking in Italy where every 20 KM accents and terms are often different...
I have a document from the year 1561 which I believe is a baptismal record. It is from Rovinj, Croatia (or Rovingo in Italian). I sent it to a University, which verified that it wasn't quite Latin and seems like it is some Italian dialect. I wondering if it is Dalmation.
Olga, I don't know where you are from, nor what drives you to make these incorrect statements ... but I am a Croatian, who happens to know a few things about my mother tongue, so please allow me to correct you and say:
1. Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are three languages, not one.
2. "Dialect" is something completely different from "language" - you are confusing the two.
3. The term "Serbo-croatian" does not exist. It was an imaginery "language" made up during the communism times. Therefore, people can speak Croatian or Serbian, nobody in a world can speak Serbo-Croatian which is a non-existent language.
4. You can't compare the Zagreb dialect to the Belgrade dialect as they are dialects from two different languages.
5. These languages exist since the beginnings of its people. This or that government doesn't affect historical and linguistical facts.
Some original Dalmatian here.
Sta nuat el foit en maur gheluat, kve tota la jakva joi glazait.
Last night it was so cold, and all water has been frozen.
Still wish we could learn this in school.
Flag this comment