LINGUIST

Tuone Udaina

1821 - 1898

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Tuone Udaina (1823 – 10 June 1898; Antonio Udina in Italian) was the last known speaker of Dalmatian, a Romance language that evolved from Latin along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. He was the main source of knowledge about his parents' dialect, that of the island of Veglia, for the linguist Matteo Bartoli, who recorded it in 1897. Udaina bore the nickname Burbur, the etymology of which is uncertain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tuone Udaina has received more than 178,639 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Tuone Udaina is the 55th most popular linguist (down from 50th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Croatian Linguist.

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  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Tuone Udaina ranks 55 out of 214Before him are Joseph Greenberg, Hugo Schuchardt, Hermann Paul, Vatroslav Jagić, Hesychius of Alexandria, and George Lakoff. After him are Josef Dobrovský, Eugenio Coșeriu, Karl Brugmann, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, and Matthias Castrén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Tuone Udaina ranks 31Before him are Bartolomé Mitre, Eduard Heine, Henry Thomas Buckle, Leon Pinsker, Ernst Engel, and Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg. After him are Rachel Félix, Félix Ziem, Cyprian Norwid, Franz Doppler, Gabriel García Moreno, and Ford Madox Brown. Among people deceased in 1898, Tuone Udaina ranks 30Before him are Princess Francisca of Brazil, Zachris Topelius, Prince Gong, Georges Rodenbach, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, and Georg Ebers. After him are Siegfried Marcus, George Müller, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Pavel Tretyakov, and Carl Zeller.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Tuone Udaina ranks 98 out of 700Before him are Branko Lustig (1932), Marino Ghetaldi (1568), Ivo Sanader (1953), Franz von Bayros (1866), Janko Bobetko (1919), and Andrej Plenković (1970). After him are Julian of Antioch (231), Ivan Zajc (1832), Roberto Ferruzzi (1853), Mario Mandžukić (1986), Branimir of Croatia (850), and Goran Hadžić (1958).

Among LINGUISTS In Croatia

Among linguists born in Croatia, Tuone Udaina ranks 2Before him are Vatroslav Jagić (1838). After him are Matteo Bartoli (1873), and Ranko Matasović (1968).