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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 Krk, 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 164,026 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Tuone Udaina is the 50th most popular linguist (up from 1,747th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Croatia (down from 77th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Croatian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Tuone Udaina ranks 50 out of 161Before him are George Lakoff, Joseph Greenberg, Charles Bally, Hesychius of Alexandria, Vatroslav Jagić, and Hermann Paul. After him are Boris Kolker, Josef Dobrovský, Karl Lachmann, Eugenio Coșeriu, Claude Piron, and August Leskien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Tuone Udaina ranks 33Before him are Eduard Heine, Henry Thomas Buckle, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Bartolomé Mitre, Franz Doppler, and Vasile Alecsandri. After him are Rachel Félix, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Gabriel García Moreno, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Leon Pinsker, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este. Among people deceased in 1898, Tuone Udaina ranks 29Before him are Ferdinand Cohn, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Prince Gong, Georges Rodenbach, Zachris Topelius, and Princess Francisca of Brazil. After him are Siegfried Marcus, Pavel Tretyakov, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Georg Ebers, George Müller, and Carl Zeller.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Tuone Udaina ranks 83 out of 589Before him are Mario Mandžukić (1986), Krešimir Ćosić (1948), Vatroslav Jagić (1838), Siniša Mihajlović (1969), Maximianus of Ravenna (499), and Mira Furlan (1955). After him are Neda Ukraden (1950), Milan Babić (1956), Branko Lustig (1932), Goran Hadžić (1958), Milan Martić (1954), and Roberto Ferruzzi (1853).

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).