Yes Andrei your comment irredentism is disappointing to me Yes I m a Dalmatian of Dalmatian ancestry islander and I m proud of it My natural language is Chakavian Croatian it means that I usually speak a lot of Dalmatian Romance language words but also there are many words of Venetian origin transferred to Chakavian during Reinnesance What s more Chakavian was the original language of the first Croats who initially appeared in the northern Dalmatia the oldest Croatian inscriptions were written in Chakavian Cro and Glagolithic alphabet Additionally the Croats were the saviours of the Latin culture in Dalmatia they never tried to destroy it they completely excepted it and practically prolonged its life so you can say that Antique has died by natural death in Dalmatia and not by force while in many other parts of Europe it disappeared by violence On the other side I ll always fight any kind of nationalism including Croatian and Italian but it s not the case here Is it I m actually a supporter of Chakavian revival to the modern standardized Croatian based on Neo Stokavian so it would include Dalmatian Romance words too I don t support any theory to prove something I ve just reported about modern tendencies in historiography concerning the most of Europe and here I was talking about all Illyricum and not only about Dalmatia or Croatia and I ve specified Dalmatia as one of the most Romanized regions of Illyricum in this discussion above there BTW multidisciplinary science has described Croatian ethnogenesis in the main elements like this Liburni Iapodes western Ardiaei Dalmatae which includes a few other familiar tribes Histri OstroGoths Sclaveni Romans Dalmatian languages speakers in the coastal Dalmatian cities in the Early Medieval How much certain group contributed is very hard to determine and will be never known I guess I m not angry on you we are all human beings