18:39, Monday 20 Mar., 2000

Fact: The last person to speak Dalmatian (the language, not the dog, spoken on the coast of what is now Croatia) was killed, in 1898, trying to clear a roadblock with a landmine.
 
Okay, so I investigating this a bit and came up with a couple of facts of my own:
 
1. The last speaker of Dalmatian was Tuone Udaina (Italian: Antonio Udina).
 
2. It appears that two different people have sent the same question (word for word) to the Linguist maillist, trying to find out about this guy - almost two years apart (in June 1998 and January 2000).
 
3. A Google search for Antonio Udina turns up an article in Britiannica. In all that time, do you think the questioner hadn't checked?

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