Who were the Dalmatians?

[Jana]

Modern Dalmatians have little to do with old Dalmatians, because Slavs killed Illyrian population upon arriving from north. Some found shelter in coastal cities and assimilated/mixed, but I think most of their genetic legacy has been whiped out

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[Scholarios]

Modern Dalmatians have little to do with old Dalmatians, because Slavs killed Illyrian population upon arriving from north. Some found shelter in coastal cities and assimilated/mixed, but I think most of their genetic legacy has been whiped out

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The language of Dalatian Latin (not Italian) only went extinct in 1898- so I don't think it is unlikely to except some other continuity as well. It was an Western Balkan Romance language, and unlike Romanian and Albanian and Bulgarian it had a pre-article. Judging from the fact that Cimocowski says that Latin toponyms in Albania show Dalmatian Romance, sound changes rather than Albanian, I am guessing that these Dalmatian Illyrians extended further south into modern Albania.

[Gjergj Dukagjini]

Polomé (op. cit. 888) sees, with a conservative view, modern Albanian as a descendant of an illyrian' language of Dalmatia. It should be noted that 'Dalmatae' is traditionally linked with Alb. 'delme' (sheep), which makes some sense considering that Dalmatia's tribes practiced stock-breeding (Price 2006: 50). The Dalmatian personal name Ceunus has a feminine counterpart Ceuna , with a possible equation in Albanian cun 'boy'. Feminine nouns in a are abundant; one female name Dita equatea with Albanian ditë 'day' (Mann 1977: 4).

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[Pribislav]

Part of conversation of Tuone Udaina with one Croatian linguist in Dalmatian language (Velgiot dialect) in year 1878 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuone_Udaina

Ju sai Tuone Udaina de saupranaum Burdur, de jein sincuonta siapto, feigl de Frane Udaina, che, cun che el sant muart el touta, el avaja setuonta siapto jein.
I am Tuone Udaina with nickname Burdur, 57 years old, I am son of Frane Udaina, who died when his father was 77 years old.

Ju jai nascoit intela cuosa del numeor trianta, de la cal che se vanaja a la basalca, e naum foit tuont a luntun la maja cousa. Foit dik puas a luntun.
I am born in house number 30, in the street which leading to the church, and which is not far awya from my home. It's 10 steps away.

Dapu zajaime fure de la ustaraja, zajaime cantur sote le finiastre de la maja murauca.
After that we left the bar, we went to sing under the windows of my dear.

[Pribislav]

Dalmatian (Romance) language

[Dick]

Modern Dalmatians have little to do with old Dalmatians, because Slavs killed Illyrian population upon arriving from north. Some found shelter in coastal cities and assimilated/mixed, but I think most of their genetic legacy has been whiped out

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[Bosniensis]

Dalmatian Illyrian tribe are modern Dalmatian, Herzegovian people.

They didn't disappear into thin air.

Just like with Anatolians they became part of another culture and different linguistic group.

[Dick]

Dalmatian Illyrian tribe are modern Dalmatian, Herzegovian people.

They didn't disappear into thin air.

Just like with Anatolians they became part of another culture and different linguistic group.

I knew you'd show up right away.

[Pribislav]

Dalmatian Illyrian tribe are modern Dalmatian, Herzegovian people.

Why than they don't speak language from the video?

[Bosniensis]

Why than they don't speak language from the video?

Anatolia was the richest and the most densely populated part of Roman Empire where everyone spoke Greek and Latin, why do they speak Turkish today?

Why do 100 million African people in Africa speak French language?

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Because they were subjugated by the people who enforced their own language curricula.