Dalmatic or Dalmatico-Romance (Italian: dalmatico; Croatian: dalmatski) was a group of Romance varieties that developed along the coast of Dalmatia.

[2] Dalamatic language should not be confused to modern Croatian dialect called "Dalmatian", which is spoken on most part of Adriatic coast of Croatia.

[3] There are also some 14th-century texts in Ragusan, but these show extensive Croatian and Venetian influence, to the point that it is difficult to discern which if any of their features are genuinely Dalmatian.

Another piece of evidence is a letter by Elio Lampridio Cerva (1463–1520) that mentions "I remember how, when I was a boy, old men would carry on legal business in the Romance language that was called Ragusan".

Dalmatic would also have been spoken on major islands and in towns along the Adriatic coast, namely Cres, Rab, Zadar, Trogir, Split, Kotor.