Professional paper
Informatic support in preservation of Croatian linguistic heritage on example of Croatian - Italian - Latin dictionary by Dragutin Parčić
Mira Zokić
Abstract
Old Croatian languages make a valuable part of our language heritage. Analysis of the structure of such dictionary offers an insight into cultural, social and economic opportunities of that time, thus comparing the then time Croatian language with the modern one. Still, the texts written in paper have timely faded and got ruined. Digitalization is carried out just because of preservation of the dictionary, but also for structural analysis, availability to a larger number of people and easier application. By digitalization of old Parcic Dictionary, a valuable work of the Croatian cultural heritage has been preserved. Except that by digitalization and structural analysis of this dictionary, many possibilities have been offered for facilitation of subsequent analytical process, research and preservation itself, also comparison of the language structure and life, from the time of the occurrence of the dictionary, with modern dictionaries and
present time, has been additionally provided.
Keywords
Croatian language; digitalization; language base language heritage; modern dictionary
Hrčak ID:
82619
URI
Publication date:
30.5.2009.
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