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Faraun is a name given to Croatian merchants from the town of Trpanj in Croatia who in the late 19th century started insisting in using the Croatian language in their correspondence with their Italian suppliers. ==Background== Like most other Dalmatian merchants, Trpanj businessmen used Italian wholesalers in Trieste, and to do so they communicated in Italian. In early 1890s, Ivo Cibilic, a wholesaler from Alexandria, originally from Trpanj wrote as a freelancer in the Narodni List, a Croatian newspaper printed in Zadar, suggesting that Trpanj merchants switch to using Croatian in their correspondence with their Italian suppliers for namely two reasons: * it would provide young Croatians (usually the sons of merchant families who were studying in Trieste) with jobs as translators * it would be a symbolic gesture of respect towards Croatian language and culture The Narodni List in its no.58 issue from 1893 reports that at a special dinner held at the Croatian library in Trpanj on 15 August 1893, the Trpanj merchants vowed to exclusively use Croatian in their business dealings, and to refuse to do business with merchants that do not use Croatian in their transactions. The town merchants signed a proclamation to that effect which was published on the front page in the no.69 issue of the Narodni List on 30 August 1893. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faraun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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