Ethnological Research, No. 16, 2011.
Review article
Documentation and Musealization of Endangered Languages in Croatia
Irena Kolbas
orcid.org/0000-0002-8993-4058
; Ethnographic Museum Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author created a theoretical and methodological framework for document and
musealisation of languages on the basis of which she begun documenting endangered
language in Croatia: Ruthenian, Istro-Romanian and Arbanasi. The paper
describes the preparations for the work and language documentation in the field,
results and conclusions. It is concluded that language can survive only by interpersonal
communication without which it could remain in a written form only, but without
speech and conversation it ceases to be a living language. It is also deemed that
in addition to endangered languages, stable ones have to be documented as well, to
protect their present form.
Keywords
language documentation; language musealisation; endangered languages; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
77032
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2011.
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