>Dalmatian /dælˈmeJʃiən/[2][3] or Dalmatic /dælˈmætJk/[2]

shut up bitch

>>2096620
>serbo-croatian
No such thing since ex-Yu.

Because Croatian is the language used in Dalmatia today (each village has its own slightly different dialect, cities are mostly standard Croatian with differences in accent and jargon, "island talk" (dialects used on Dalmatian islands, each is unique due to isolation) is nearly incomprehensible to non-natives, but all dialects found in Dalmatia, Istria and Dubrovnik are grouped into the "čakavski" dialect for simplicity due to similarity), with the language of the romanized Illyrians being lost.
t. Dalmatian from Split (Spalato)

>>2096676
But cakavski is just a Croatian dialect.

This is supposed to be something else entirely.

>>2096620
>how come it's never discussed?

How come an irrelevant extinct language is never discussed? Take a wild guess.

>>2096620
There are thousands of extinct languages. Why is this one any more special?

>>2096676
Also dialects used in Dalmatia have plenty Italian loan words (though the number is decreasing through time, as unique dialects are dying off) and influences due to trade and spending time as part of the Venetian republic. Also because there used to be a lot of Italians in Dalmatia, and wealthy Dalmatian families used to send their sons to get educated in Italian universities.

>>2096686
>But cakavski is just a Croatian dialect.
Correct.
>This is supposed to be something else entirely
No such thing. Latin was the 'official' language for a long time (though only the nobility spoke it), but the language of the Illyrians is no more.

>>2096736
>Tuone Udaina (1821 – June 10, 1898; Antonio Udina in Italian) was the last person to have any active knowledge of the Dalmatian language, a Romance language that had evolved from Latin along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea.[1] [2] He was the main source of knowledge about his parents' dialect, that of the island of Veglia (Krk in Croatian), for the linguist Matteo Bartoli, who recorded it in 1897. No sound recordings were ever made. Vegliot Dalmatian was not Udaina's native language, as he had learned it from listening to his parents' private conversations.[citation needed] Udaina had not spoken the Dalmatian language for nearly 20 years at the time he acted as a linguistic informant. Udaina worked as a marine postman and as a sexton; he bore the nickname Burbur ("barber" in Dalmatian).[3]

>>2096704
>t. Leftist

>>2096765
No. I feel sad about their loss. It is a cultural blow.

But OP's question about why this specific one is never discussed is just odd.

I was in Dubrovnik a few years ago, and the exact same subject interested me. Apparently it was still spoken until just a few centuries ago before Italian supplanted it.