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Istro-Romanian language
Istro-Romanian is an Eastern Romance language that is spoken in a few villages in the peninsula of Istria, on the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in what is now Croatia, but which was spoken in a substantially broader part of the region of Istria surrounding the Ciceria (now Ćićarija} mountain range which was named after these people. Its remaining speakers call themselves Vlahi, Rumeni, Rumâni or Rumâri, but are nowadays also referred to as Cici and Ćiribiri, the latter being a nickname that in the past disparagingly referred to the language, not to the people). The Istro-Romanians themselves are split into two groups: the Ćići (denoting the people on the north side of Mt. Ucka) and the Vlahi (denoting the people on the south side of Mt. Ucka). And yet, despite distinctions and interjection of other languages which vary from village to village, their language is otherwise linguistically identical.
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