Editing Slavomolisano dialect (section)

{{short description|Dialect}}
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{{Infobox language
|name=Molise Slavic
|altname=Molise Croatian, Slavomolisano
|nativename={{lang|svm|na-našu, na-našo}}
|states=[[Italy]]
|region=[[Molise]]
|minority={{ITA}}
|ethnicity=[[Molise Croats]]
|speakers=< 1,000<!--E19 forgot the "less than" in the code request-->
|date=2012
|ref=<ref name="SIL">{{cite web |url=http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2012-068_svm.pdf |first=Walter |last=Breu |publisher=ISO 639-3 Registration Authority |title=Request for New Language Code Element in ISO 639-3 |date=2012-03-06 |access-date=2013-06-30}}</ref>
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
|fam3=[[Slavic languages|Slavic]]
|fam4=[[South Slavic languages|South Slavic]]
|fam5=[[Western South Slavic languages|Western South Slavic]]
|fam6=[[Shtokavian]]
|fam7=[[Neo-Shtokavian]]
|fam8=[[Younger Ikavian dialect|Younger Ikavian]]
|script=[[Latin script|Latin]]<ref>{{e21|svm|Slavomolisano}}</ref>
|iso3=svm
|glotto=slav1254
|glottorefname=Slavomolisano
}}
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[[File:Mundimitar ploča.jpg|thumb|right|Bilingual street sign in Montemitro in Italian and Molise Croatian.]]
'''''Slavomolisano''''', also known as '''Molise Slavic''' or '''Molise Croatian''' ({{langx|hr|Moliški hrvatski}}; {{langx|it|croato molisano}}), is a variety of [[Shtokavian dialect|Shtokavian]] [[Croatian language|Croatian]] spoken by [[Croats of Italy|Italian Croats]] in three villages – [[Montemitro]] ({{lang|svm|Mundimitar}}), [[Acquaviva Collecroce]] ({{lang|svm|Živavoda Kruč}}) and [[San Felice del Molise]] ({{lang|svm|Štifilić}}) – in the [[province of Campobasso]], in the [[Molise]] Region of southern [[Italy]]. There are fewer than 1,000 active speakers, and fewer than 2,000 passive speakers.<ref name="SIL"/>

It has been preserved since a group of Croats emigrated from [[Dalmatia]] due to the advancing [[Ottoman Turks]]. The residents of these villages speak a [[Shtokavian dialect|Shtokavian]] [[Younger Ikavian dialect]] with a strong [[Southern Chakavian]] [[adstratum]]. The [[Molise Croats]] consider themselves to be Slavic Italians, with South Slavic heritage and who speak a Slavic language, rather than simply ethnic Slavs or Croats.<ref name="SIL"/> Some speakers call themselves {{lang|svm|Zlavi}} or {{lang|svm|Harvati}} and call their language simply {{lang|svm|na našo}} ("our language").