In 1898, the last speaker of the little-known Dalmatian language died in a railroad accident, the final act in the language’s millennium-long decline. Although it had clung onto life for so long, the Dalmatian language had been caught between two much larger rivals, the prestige language of the Adriatic, Italian, […]
How a Land Mine Killed a Language: Tuone Udaina and the Extinction of Dalmatian
