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The language is assumed to be spoken at "present" in an alt-historical setting. Among several other changes, this world has a tech level of about 1850 AD, with several centers of development (not only Europe, but southern and eastern Asia etc), still has Byzantium (the one true "Romania", albeit Greek-speaking) as an existing political reality of a certain geopolitical weight; and several Romance-speaking nations non-existing in our timeline (OTL).

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  • Dalmatica
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  • The language is assumed to be spoken at "present" in an alt-historical setting. Among several other changes, this world has a tech level of about 1850 AD, with several centers of development (not only Europe, but southern and eastern Asia etc), still has Byzantium (the one true "Romania", albeit Greek-speaking) as an existing political reality of a certain geopolitical weight; and several Romance-speaking nations non-existing in our timeline (OTL).
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  • The language is assumed to be spoken at "present" in an alt-historical setting. Among several other changes, this world has a tech level of about 1850 AD, with several centers of development (not only Europe, but southern and eastern Asia etc), still has Byzantium (the one true "Romania", albeit Greek-speaking) as an existing political reality of a certain geopolitical weight; and several Romance-speaking nations non-existing in our timeline (OTL). I built it up as mashup of several linguistic influences: a strong Illyrian-Albanian sostrate, Rumanian, Old Dalmatian, even Friulian, with Greek and Slavic-influenced vocabulary. And presumably an Italian adstrate (Venetian, Apulian) related to navigation, trade, law etc. "Dalmatia" is a two-century old independent polity, with its capital in Yeshpelc (OTL Split), albeit with an important ancestor state centuries before whose legendary doomed struggle for freedom against Constantinople rooted a national conscience. The language itself, profoundly innovative in sound but archaic in many other respects, came from the interior where this earlier kingdom had flourished, superseding and quickly replacing in the XVI-XVIIth centuries of the Christian Era a more Latinate-sounding cousin previously spoken along the coast and in the islands. This was due to intense immigration from the interior, coupled with lively emigration from the coast for trade/settlement elsewhere. Small communities in eastern and southern Italy still speak Old Dalmatian dialects. The country is mostly Uniate Catholic, with relevant Orthodox presence; the language is indifferently written with the traditional Glagolitic script ("Ayëgrafyë", lit. Holy Writing), massively preferred in the interior, or with a clear Latin transliteration ("Vuarcë", in general parlance: the "orthodox", correct, modern writing) definitely fixed a couple centuries "ago" and in general use in cities.
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