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Istro-Romanians are a small and dwindling ethnic group in the peninsula of Istria, Croatia, who speak what is thought of as a dialect that broke off Romanian several hundred years ago, and became its own language in a way. Based on their speech and customs, they are thought to be an offshoot of 15th century migrants from Transylvania. Unlike other Balkan Vlachs like Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, who were always from south of the Danube and whose language has a somewhat more distant common root with Romanian from 1000 years ago, Istro-Romanian is certainly an offshoot of Daco-Romanian that later migrated to the region. The language only has a few hundred speakers left today. I can understand some of it but it's become corrupted heavily by Serbo-Croatian influences over time. Still interesting though.
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