Editing Istro-Romanian language (section)

{{Short description|Romance language of the Balkans}}
{{Distinguish|Istriot language}}
{{More footnotes needed|date=September 2009}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Istro-Romanian
|nativename=''rumârește'', ''vlășește''
|states=[[Croatia]]
|region=[[Istria]]
|ethnicity=[[Istro-Romanians]]
|speakers=300
|date=2007
|ref=e23
|speakers2=[[L2 speakers]]: 1,100 (2007)<ref name=e23/>
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Italic languages|Italic]]
|fam3=[[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]]
|fam4=[[Latin]]
|fam5=[[Romance languages|Romance]]
|fam6=[[Eastern Romance languages|Eastern Romance]]
|fam7=Northern Romanian?{{efn|The internal classification of the Eastern Romance languages presented in Petrucci (1999) proposes a bipartite split into Northern and Southern branches, with the Northern branch splitting into Istro-Romanian and Daco-Romanian.{{sfn|Petrucci|1999|p=4}} By contrast, the classification presented within [[Glottolog]] v4.8 proposes a bipartite split between Aromanian and Northern Romanian, the latter of which is further split into Istro-Romanian and Eastern Romanian, from which Daco-Romanian and Megleno-Romanian are hypothesized to have split.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/east2714 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Eastern Romance |date=2023-07-10 |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=[[Glottolog]] |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |publisher=[[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] |author-link=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=[[Leipzig]] |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}</ref>}}
|ancestor=[[Old Latin]]
|ancestor2=[[Vulgar Latin]]
|ancestor3=[[Proto-Romance language|Proto-Romance]]
|ancestor4=[[Common Romanian]]
|iso3=ruo
|glotto=istr1245
|glottorefname=Istro Romanian
|lingua=51-AAD-a (varieties: 51-AAD-aa to -ab)
|map=
|mapcaption=
|map2=Lang Status 40-SE.svg
|mapcaption2={{center|{{small|Istro-Romanian is classified as Severely Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
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{{Eastern Romance languages}}

The '''Istro-Romanian language''' ({{lang|ruo|rumârește, vlășește}}) is an [[Eastern Romance languages|Eastern Romance language]], spoken in a few villages and hamlets in the peninsula of [[Istria]] in [[Croatia]], as well as in the diaspora of this people. It is sometimes abbreviated to IR.

While its speakers call themselves ''Rumeri'', ''Rumeni'', they are also known as ''[[Vlachs]]'', ''Rumunski'', ''Ćići'' and ''Ćiribiri''. The last one, used by ethnic Croats, originated as a disparaging nickname for the language, rather than its speakers.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

Due to the fact that its speakers are estimated to be fewer than 500, it is listed among languages that are "severely endangered" in the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Salminen |first=Tapani |date=1999 |title=Endangered Languages in Europe: Indexes |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/europe_index.html |access-date=2018-11-24 |website=www.helsinki.fi}}</ref>

It is also considered by some Romanian scholars to be an idiosyncratic offshoot dialect of [[Romanian language|Romanian]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Romanian Language |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Romanian-language |access-date=2018-11-24 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}</ref>