Dalmatian (also called
Vegliot or
Ragusan) is an extinct
Romance language formerly spoken along the
Dalmatian coast of
Croatia, near
Dubrovnik. Its last native speaker was killed by a landmine in
1898. It was related more closely to
Italian than the nearby
Romanian dialects, such as the nearly-extinct
Istro-Romanian, also spoken in the former
Yugoslavia.
The Croatian language is sometimes referred to as "Dalmatian" in modern usage, however this is a mingling of terminology, and the two languages are not closely related.