Minority languages of Croatia
The Istro-Romanian language is one of the smallest minority languages spoken in Croatia with fewer than 500 speakers concentrated mainly in the north-eastern part of the Istrian Peninsula. While the language is not officially recognized in the Constitution of Croatia under that name (the Constitution does reference Romanians and Vlachs), it is specifically recognized as such in the Statute of the Istrian Region and in the Statute of the Municipality of Kršan . In 2016, with funding from the Romanian government, the school in the village of Šušnjevica was fully renovated and is expected to start offering education in Istro-Romanian.
Jakov Mikalja
It was the first Croatian dictionary, with Croatian (under name of "Illyric" or "Slovinian") as the starting language (in the very same dictionary, he treats the terms Croatian, Slovinian and Illyric as synonyms ). An Important thing to note is that Micaglia names in his dictionary Croatian language as ""Illyric"" or "Slovinian", Italian as ""Latin"", which he names as the ""students' language"" (diacki). The introduction to the dictionary has a "Latin" dedication, a note to the reader in Italian ("Al benigno lettore"), a presentation of the alphabet and orthography in Latin and Croatian ("Od ortographie jezika slovinskoga ili načina od pisanja"), and an Italian grammar in Croatian ("Grammatika Talianska").