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Istro-Romanian language, the Glossary

The Istro-Romanian language (rumârește, vlășește) is an Eastern Romance language, spoken in a few villages and hamlets in the peninsula of Istria in Croatia, as well as in the diaspora of this people.^[1]

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Eastern Romance languages
Endangered Romance languages
Languages of Croatia

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Alexandru Leca Morariu

Alexandru Leca Morariu (July 25, 1888–December 15, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian philologist, linguist, literary critic and historian, ethnologist, folklorist and musicologist.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Andrei Glavina

Andrei Glavina (30 November 1881 – 9 February 1925; Andrej Glavina; Andrea Glavina) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Istro-Romanian writer, professor and politician born in Šušnjevica.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.

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August Kovačec

August Kovačec (born 6 August 1938) is Croatian linguist and Romanicist.

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Ćićarija

Ćićarija (Čičarija; Cicceria, Monti della Vena; Ciceria; Tschitschen Boden) is a mountainous plateau in the northern and northeastern part of the Istria peninsula, long and wide.

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Šušnjevica

Šušnjevica (Istro-Romanian: Șușńievițe or Susńievița; Susgneviza, Susgnevizza and Valdarsa) is a small village in Istria County, Croatia, in the municipality of Kršan.

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Žejane

Žejane (Jeiăn; Seiane) is a village in the eastern part of the mountainous Ćićarija area in Istria, in western Croatia.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Balkan sprachbund

The Balkan sprachbund or Balkan language area is an ensemble of areal features—similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology—among the languages of the Balkans. Istro-Romanian language and Balkan sprachbund are eastern Romance languages.

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Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Central consonant

A central consonant, also known as a median consonant, is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Close-mid vowel

A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Common Romanian

Common Romanian (română comună), also known as Ancient Romanian (străromână), or Proto-Romanian (protoromână), is a comparatively reconstructed Romance language evolved from Vulgar Latin and spoken by the ancestors of today's Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and related Balkan Latin peoples (Vlachs) between the 6th or 7th century AD and the 10th or 11th centuries AD. Istro-Romanian language and Common Romanian are eastern Romance languages.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.

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Daco-Roman

The term Daco-Roman describes the Romanized culture of Dacia under the rule of the Roman Empire. Istro-Romanian language and Daco-Roman are eastern Romance languages.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

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Dinara

Dinara is a mountain range in the Dinaric Alps, located on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

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Dobrinj

Dobrinj is a village and municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in northwestern Croatia, on the island of Krk.

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Dubašnica

Dubašnica (Dubasnizza) was a village in the northwestern part of the island of Krk, now in Croatia, at the south of Malinska and near Poljica.

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Eastern Romance languages

The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages.

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Frankopan family

The House of Frankopan (Frankopani, Frankapani, Frangipani, Frangepán, Frangepanus, Francopanus) was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croatia in union with Hungary.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Glottolog

Glottolog is an open-access online bibliographic database of the world's languages.

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Istria

Istria (Croatian and Slovene: Istra; Italian and Venetian: Istria) is the largest peninsula to border the Adriatic Sea.

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Istriot language

The Istriot language (Lèngua Eîstriota) is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian branch spoken by about 400 people in the southwestern part of the Istrian peninsula in Croatia, particularly in Rovinj and Vodnjan. Istro-Romanian language and Istriot language are endangered Romance languages and languages of Croatia.

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Istro-Romanian alphabet

The Istro-Romanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used by the Istro-Romanian language.

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Istro-Romanian grammar

Istro-Romanian grammar expresses the structure of the Istro-Romanian language It is similar to those of other Eastern Romance languages.

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Istro-Romanians

The Istro-Romanians (rumeri or rumâri) are a Romance ethnic group native to or associated with the Istrian Peninsula. Istro-Romanian language and Istro-Romanians are Istria.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Istro-Romanian language and italian language are languages of Croatia.

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jesenovik

Jesenovik (Istro-Romanian: Sucodru; Italian: Iessenoviza) is a small village in Istria, Croatia, in the municipality of Kršan.

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Krk

Krk (Veglia; Krk; Vikla; archaic German: Vegl, Curicta; Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latino-Faliscan languages

The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.

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Legacy of the Roman Empire

The legacy of the Roman Empire has been varied and significant.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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Malinska

Malinska (Durischal) is a settlement (naselje) in the northwestern part of the island Krk in Croatia and an important tourist town.

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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997.

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Megleno-Romanian language

Megleno-Romanian (known as vlăhește by its speakers, and Megleno-Romanian or Meglenitic and sometimes Moglenitic or Meglinitic by linguists) is an Eastern Romance language, similar to Aromanian. Istro-Romanian language and Megleno-Romanian language are eastern Romance languages and endangered Romance languages.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Old Church Slavonic

Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language.

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Old Latin

Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical lit), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin.

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Omišalj

Omišalj (Castel Muschio; Moschau) is a coastal municipality in the north-west of the island of Krk in Croatia.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Open-mid vowel

An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Origin of the Romanians

Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.

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Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Poljica, Krk

Poljica is a village on the island of Krk, Croatia.

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Proto-Romance language

Proto-Romance is the comparatively reconstructed ancestor of the Romance languages.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Istro-Romanian language and Romanian language are eastern Romance languages.

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Second language

A second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1).

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Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Istro-Romanian language and Serbo-Croatian are languages of Croatia.

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Sextil Pușcariu

Sextil Iosif Pușcariu (4 January 1877 – 5 May 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist and philologist, also known for his involvement in administrative and party politics.

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Slovene language

Slovene or Slovenian (slovenščina) is a South Slavic language of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.

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Substrate in Romanian

The proposed substratal elements in Romanian are mostly lexical items.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thraco-Roman

The term Thraco-Roman describes the Romanized culture of Thracians under the rule of the Roman Empire. Istro-Romanian language and Thraco-Roman are eastern Romance languages.

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Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Velebit

Velebit (Alpi Bebie) is the largest, though not the highest, mountain range in Croatia.

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Venetian language

Venetian, wider Venetian or Venetan (łengua vèneta or vèneto) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy,Ethnologue mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. Istro-Romanian language and Venetian language are languages of Croatia.

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Vlachs

Vlach, also Wallachian (and many other variants), is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula) and north of the Danube.

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

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Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istro-Romanian_language

Also known as ISO 639:ruo, Istro Romanian, Istro Romanian language, Istro Rumanian language, Istro-Romanian dialect, Istro-Roumanian language, Istro-Rumanian language, Morlach dialect, Morlach language, Vlaski and Zejanski language, Vlaški and Žejanski language.

, Ohio State University, Old Church Slavonic, Old Latin, Omišalj, Open vowel, Open-mid vowel, Origin of the Romanians, Palatal consonant, Plosive, Poljica, Krk, Proto-Romance language, Romance languages, Romania, Romanian language, Second language, Serbo-Croatian, Sextil Pușcariu, Slovene language, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Substrate in Romanian, The New York Times, Thraco-Roman, Trill consonant, UNESCO, Velar consonant, Velebit, Venetian language, Vlachs, Voice (phonetics), Voicelessness, Vulgar Latin, World War II.

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See also

Eastern Romance languages

Endangered Romance languages

Languages of Croatia

References