The Last Roman Language Died With One Man 1898

In 1898, an explosion killed Tuone Udaina, the last person on Earth who spoke Dalmatian, a Romance language born from Latin on the Adriatic coast. This is the story of how a language survived the fall of Rome, the arrival of the Slavs, and a thousand years of Venetian rule, and how one linguist wrote down its final words just in time. In this video: - Roman Dalmatia: Salona, Zadar, Split and Diocletian's Palace - How Latin became a language of its own on the coast - How Venetian and Croatian slowly replaced it - Matteo Bartoli's 1897 expedition to the island of Veglia (Krk) - The last speaker and the accident that ended Dalmatian Subscribe to Echoes of the Forgotten for more lost peoples, vanished languages and forgotten history. #Dalmatian #LostLanguages #RomanEmpire #ForgottenHistory