This thesis examines the problem of identity of Ist's inhabitants expressed through their speech and relationship with the island's space. The goal of this thesis is to give a look into the construction of identity of Ist's inhabitants, through talking with them and through examining their everyday interactions between themselves and the island's space. Starting chapter opens with the problem of the term “identity” – it examines the theoretical background on how this term is approached in social sciences, and how it is used in academic practice and fieldwork. Next in the thesis, we discuss the question of the economic situation on the island. Ist, similarly like other small Croatian islands, is facing the problem of migration of young people and weak economic development over the years. In the last one hundred years, a large portion of Ist’s inhabitants has moved away to live in big cities near the coast, which eventually had the effect of Ist’s speech being more and more influenced by the Croatian standard language. Today this influence is causing a difference in the range of the vocabulary between the older and the younger people of Ist. There are two important parts of Ist that contribute to the uniqueness and expressiveness of Ist compared to other islands in the Zadar’s archipelago: Bratski dvor and Straža. This thesis is also going to analyse how those spaces are approached by the island’s inhabitants in their everyday life.