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ruoIstro Romanian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Istro-Romanian is an Eastern Romance language that is still spoken today in a few villages and hamlets in the peninsula of Istria, on the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in what is now Croatia as well as in other countries around the world where the Istro-Romanian people settled after the two world wars, most notably in Italy, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Sweden, Germany, and other countries. Before the 20th century, it was spoken in a substantially broader part of northeastern Istria surrounding the Ćićarija mountain range (ancient Mons Carusadius) all the way up to Trieste. Its remaining speakers call themselves Vlahi (a name given to them by Slavs), as well as Rumunski, Rumeni, Rumeri, Rumunji, as well as Ćići and Ćiribiri (this last being a nickname that was previously used disparagingly to identify the Istro-Romanian language, not its speakers).

Entry terms

  • Istro-Romanian language
  • Romanian, Istro

ISO 639-3 code

  • ruo

Notation

  • ruo

In other languages

  • Istro-roumain

    French

  • Istrorumänische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua istrorumena

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma istrorrumano

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ruo

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