At 5:59:59 PM on Friday, January 1, 2010, Rick McCallister
wrote:
> My understanding is that Dalamatian was spoken roughly in
> W former Yugoslavia at least as far south as Montenegro.
> Does anyone know how far south?
Naturally our knowledge of Dalmatian is spotty. <g>
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_language> says that
it extended as far south as Kotor in Montenegro. arko
Muljacic, in an article in the Enzyklopädie des Europäischen
Ostens, available at <www.uni-klu.ac.at/eeo/Dalmatisch.pdf>
(149 kB), takes it as far south as Lesh in Albania. He also
says that as the Byzantine state had to give up the northern
part of the region to the Regnum Croatiae et Dalmatiae and
most of the southern part to the Regnum Slavorum, a third
variety (besides the traditional Vegliot and Ragusan)
developed between Kotor and Lesh; he calls it Labeatic. He
now considers Jadertinic, Ragusic, and Labeatic to be three
Dalmatio-Romanian languages, constituting the central core
of the Illyro-Romanian group, to which Istro-Romanian and
Albano-Romanian also belong.
By the way, at
<
http://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php/Sprachenlexikon> one can
retrieve any of the language articles in the EEO.
Brian