Original sentence: According to an Austrian census, which recorded the main language spoken by the citizen, the majority of the inhabitants of the urban centre of Zadar (Zara) spoke Italian.Croatian sources affirm that these speakers were Croats who adopted the language as a kind of symbol of distinguishing from the masses (and to allow for easier advancement is society), especially from the nearby countryside, which was entirely Croatian, and they conclude that the majority of the inhabitants were Croatian.Italian sources, on the other hand, affirm that many ethnic Croats had adopted Italian culture during the period of Venetian rule, and that they were assimilated at the beginning of the XX century, they conclude that they should be considered Italian.Most of the sources agree that a relevant part of the supposed Italian speakers traced their origin in ethnically Croatian families