Slovenske jezične manjine u Italii: slovenački u Friuliju i hrvatski u pokrajini Molize

In this paper the dialects of some Slovene linguistic islands of eastern Friuli are analysed and then compared to the Croatian of Molise, another Slavic linguistic island in Italy. After an introductory sociolinguistic overview, various linguistic characteristics are singled out and analysed. The age-long contact that this peripheral Slavonic area had with the bordering Romance is pointed out in relation to phenomena such as: the gradual loss of the neuter and the dual, the preservation of the imperfect and pluperfect, the loss of the law of Wackernagel, the phenomenon of clitic doubling, the phenomenon of pronominal repetition of the subject, the development of the article, etc.