Italian language in Croatia
As of 2009, the Italian language is officially used in twenty cities and municipalities and ten other settlements in Croatia, according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. It is an officially recognized minority language in Istria County, where it is spoken by 6.83% of the population on the aggregate and closer to 50% of the population in certain subdivisions.
Bartol Kašić
Kašić called the language used in "Ritual rimski" as "naški" ("our language") or "bosanski" ("Bosnian"). He used the term "Bosnian" even though he was born in a Chakavian region: instead he decided to adopt a "common language" ("lingua communis"), a version of Shtokavian Ikavian, spoken by the majority the speakers of Serbo-Croatian. He used the terms "dubrovački" (from Dubrovnik) for the Ijekavian version used in his Bible, and "dalmatinski" (Dalmatian) for the Chakavian version.In Croatian: