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All about the Dalmatian Language

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All about the Dalmatian Language game quiz
"Dalmatian is not, as you might think, a language of dogs, but an extinct tongue originally spoken along the Dalmatian coast. How much do you know about it?"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Which language family does Dalmatian belong to?
    Romance
    Germanic
    Slavic
    Baltic


2. Which of these is NOT an alternative name for this language?
    Ragusan
    Vegliotian
    Vegliot
    Croatian


3. Dalmatian was based mostly on Latin but borrowed words also from another language. Which one?
    Answer: (One word (or two with a hyphen in between))


4. Is there such a language as Neo-Dalmatian?
    Yes
    No


5. The name of the last speaker of Dalmatian was Tuone Udaina. In what year did he die?
    1893
    1899
    1898
    1897


6. There were 50,000 Dalmatian speakers five years or so before Tuone Udaina's death.
    True
    False


7. The masculine and feminine singular indefinite articles in Dalmatian were...?
    An, Ane
    Un, Una
    Neki, Neke
    Ul, Ya


8. 'Un om buanu'. If you were a man and I told you this, would it be a compliment?
    Yes
    No


9. 'Una uzina granda'. What does this mean?
    a big bird
    a big woman
    a big factory
    a big man


10. In the Dalmatian alphabet, there is a consonant spelled 'xh'. How do you pronounce it?
    'zh'
    'dZ'
    'zH'
    'z'


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