Do any of you know any good timelines on Dalmatia (the dalmatian latins of ragusa, sp

I'm talking about BEFORE that, yes, by 1600 the Dalmatian coast cities were Latin only in name. but before that they did speak a form of romance, most dialects were extinct by 1400.
 
I don't remember a TL focusing on that...Did you tried the search engine?

As for language along the coast, it's a bit more complex. Dalmatian was indeed a Romance language, that existed along the coast but it existed (essentially on islands and some cities) with Slavic languages in the same region since the High Middle Ages.

Cities as Ragusa were actually multilingual* and while Ragusan Dalmatian was present, you had a wide use of Croatian and Venetian Italian (to say nothing about Medieval Latin as a chancery language).
By the Late Middle Ages, Ragusan Dalmatian had only a reduced use, and heavily influenced by the Venetian Italian used by the upper classes. At best you had a diglossy situation by then, while it eventually went nearly extinct by the late Renaissance.

* It's hardly an exception : most cities tended to be multilingual compared to their large countryside up to the XIXth in Central and Eastern Europe (earlier in Western Europe). See Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe on this general topic.
 
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