Slavomolisano
Facts
- Language: Slavomolisano
- Alternate names: Croato molisano, Molise Slavic, Naš jezik, Slavic of Molise
- Language code: svm
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, South Slavic, Western South Slavic
- Number of speakers: 1000
- Script:
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Introduction
Slavomolisano is a variety of Shtokavian Serbo-Croatian spoken by Italian Croats in the province of Campobasso, in the Molise Region of southern Italy, in the villages of Montemitro (Mundimitar), Acquaviva Collecroce and San Felice del Molise (Štifilić). There are fewer than 1,000 active speakers, and fewer than 2,000 passive speakers.
Montemitro, one of the towns where Slavomolisano is still spoken
The Slavomolisano Verb
Verbs are conjugated in present, past, and imperative. The rest of the forms are perifrastic, and formed with auxiliaries bit 'to be', jimat 'to have', tit 'will', stat 'to remain', and hot 'to go'.bit 'to be'
| Present ipf | Present pf | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sg.1 | jes | Sg.1 | bidam |
| Sg.2 | jes | Sg.2 | bidaš |
| Sg.3 | je | Sg.3 | bide |
| Pl.1 | jesm | Pl.1 | bidam |
| Pl.2 | jest | Pl.2 | bidat |
| Pl.3 | jesu | Pl.3 | bidu |
| Past ipf | Past pf | ||
| Sg.1 | bih | Sg.1 | bidah |
| Sg.2 | biš | Sg.2 | bidaš |
| Sg.3 | biš | Sg.3 | bidaš |
| Pl.1 | bihm | Pl.1 | bidahm |
| Pl.2 | biht | Pl.2 | bidaht |
| Pl.3 | bih | Pl.3 | bidah |
| Imperative | Past participle | ||
| Sg.2 | bid | Sg.m | bij |
| Pl.1 | bidim | Sg.f | bil |
| Pl.2 | bidit | Sg.n | bil |
| Pl.m | bil | ||
| Pl.f | bil | ||
Verblist
- bit
- jimat
- jist
- medikat
- nimat
- povidat
- rivat
- tit
- vazat