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12-12-2012, 04:27 PM
Molise Croatian is a tokavian-ikavian dialect with a number of čakavian elements. Their dialect has survived in isolation from other Slavic languages for 500 years.
Molise Croats (moliški Hrvati in scientific literature) live in the Molise region of Italymarker in the villages Acquaviva Collecroce, San Felice del Molise, Montemitro and elsewhere. In these three villages they are a majority. There are about 5,000 speakers of the Molise Croatian dialect. Additionally, there are about 1,000 people in other parts of Italy and emigrants in other countries originating from these villages.
These three villages are the residual of Croat refugees' colonies (because of Ottoman advance), that appeared in the Italian southern Adriatic hinterland (from Marche to Pugliamarker) in the 15th century.
Language of Molise Croatians
SIN MOJ
Mo prosič solite saki dan
ma što činiš, ne govoreš maj
je funia dan, je počela noča,
maneštra se mrzli za te čeka.
Letu vlase e tvoja mat
gleda vane za te vit.
Boli život za sta zgoro,
ma samo mat te hoče dobro.
Sin moj!
Nimam već suze za još plaka
nimam već riče za govorat.
Srce se guli za te misli
što ti prodava, oni ke sve te išće!
Palako govoru, čelkadi saki dan,
ke je dola droga na vi grad.
Sin moj!
Tvoje oč, bihu toko lipe,
sada jesu mrtve,
Boga ja molim, da ti živiš
droga ja hočem da ti zabiš,
doma te čekam, ke se vrniš,
Solite ke mi prosiš,
kupiš paradis, ma smrtu platiš.
Molise Croats (moliški Hrvati in scientific literature) live in the Molise region of Italymarker in the villages Acquaviva Collecroce, San Felice del Molise, Montemitro and elsewhere. In these three villages they are a majority. There are about 5,000 speakers of the Molise Croatian dialect. Additionally, there are about 1,000 people in other parts of Italy and emigrants in other countries originating from these villages.
These three villages are the residual of Croat refugees' colonies (because of Ottoman advance), that appeared in the Italian southern Adriatic hinterland (from Marche to Pugliamarker) in the 15th century.
Language of Molise Croatians
SIN MOJ
Mo prosič solite saki dan
ma što činiš, ne govoreš maj
je funia dan, je počela noča,
maneštra se mrzli za te čeka.
Letu vlase e tvoja mat
gleda vane za te vit.
Boli život za sta zgoro,
ma samo mat te hoče dobro.
Sin moj!
Nimam već suze za još plaka
nimam već riče za govorat.
Srce se guli za te misli
što ti prodava, oni ke sve te išće!
Palako govoru, čelkadi saki dan,
ke je dola droga na vi grad.
Sin moj!
Tvoje oč, bihu toko lipe,
sada jesu mrtve,
Boga ja molim, da ti živiš
droga ja hočem da ti zabiš,
doma te čekam, ke se vrniš,
Solite ke mi prosiš,
kupiš paradis, ma smrtu platiš.