Protected intangible cultural heritage of Croatia (Z-6990)
Learn the dialect they can't understand one town over
Komiški — the protected speech of Komiža and Biševo. Islander, fisherman, stubborn. Learn it before it falls silent.
Beśida beśidu iźganje. — One word summons another — a Komiža proverb
Translate into komiški
Type any sentence. We mark what is attested in the dictionary and what the machine derived from the rules.
Why komiški?
The southernmost cakavica
Ca instead of što. Śardela instead of srdela. A speech shaped by the sea for a thousand years.
The fishermen's tongue
Falkuša, svićor, vojga, brušket — the lexicon of the Adriatic's greatest fishing epic.
Still alive
Older Komižani still speak it. Learn it from them — while there is still someone to learn from.
Try the decoder
Long a becomes o. Long o becomes u. Type a standard Croatian word:
glava → glova · brod → brud · dan → don
From furešt to Komižanin
You arrive on the ferry in a suit. Every lesson gets you a little more aboard the island: field hand, fisherman, master of the crew… until you become a true Komižanin — or Komiška.
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