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Korcula dialect (or Korčulanski) is a Croatian dialect from the island of Korčula. The dialect has remnants of the extinct Romance language Dalmatian.[1] The Dalmatian remnants within the dialect have been referred to as Corzulot.

Examples of Corzulot words compared with Vegliot,[2] English and Croatian:

(Corzulot/Vegliot/English/Croatian)[3]

  • Buža/Bus/Hole/Rupa
  • Čimitir/Čimitier/Graveyard/Groblje
  • Dent/Diant/Tooth/Zub
  • Faculet/Fazuol/Handkerchief/Rubac
  • Fatiga/Fatica/Works/Radi
  • Fermaj/Fermai/Stop!/Stoj!
  • Jeloz/Golaus/Jealous/Ljubomoran
  • Kantat/Cantar/To sing/Pjevati

Korcula dialect without the Vegliot comparison

(Korcula dialect/English/Croatian)

  • alavia/ it's Ok! /u redu
  • bevanda/ wine with water/vino sa vodom
  • beštija/animal/životinja
  • cilo/ wine without water/vino bez vode
  • čagalj/jackal
  • fumati /smoking/pušiti
  • griža/hard stone
  • gira/a fish from Croatia
  • gustrina/rainwater reservoir
  • kapula/onion
  • soldi /money /novac
  • zrcalo/mirror/ogledalo

Each town and villages on the island have their unique version of the dialect.

References

  1. ^ Collegium antropologicum, Volumes 15-16 by Croatian Anthropological Society, School of Biological Anthropology -1991
  2. ^ Encyclopedia Britannica: History & Society-Vegliot Dalmatian
    • Romance language formerly spoken along the Dalmatian coast from the island of Veglia (modern Krk) to Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik). Ragusan Dalmatian probably disappeared in the 17th century. The Vegliot Dalmatian dialect became extinct in the 19th century.
  3. ^ Wikipedia: Dalmatian language

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