>Or hear Dalmatian spoken (except that nobody has spoken it since 1898)?

I would guess that it was still being spoken here in Zild until around that time. The Far North of Zild (the tail of the fish), has a sigbificant number of people descended from Dalmatians who came here in the late 1800s to mine for kauri gum.


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