Well seeing this ongoing and never ending thread the other day I sent
some e-mails to people living in Zlatibor asking for help.
This is the first answer I got. I hope others will follow. (see below)
This answer comes from the public library. Please note that I deleted
the e-mail address since I do not know if they would agree to give it out.
Well: whoever wants the Zlatiborian Wikipedia can work the same way:
contact people, collect literature and whatever can testimony the
"existance" of that language, create your project on a private website
for now. It could well be that it is a dialect spoken by only a few
people, just like the people of a little town near Rodach in Germany who
speak a very different "dialect" that almost cannot be understood by
neighbouring towns. If this is the case there must be documents: get
these out on the web and work on that. If you really want it and it is a
"reality" you must work on getting documents out, even official ones -
no-one says it is easy, but you cannot expect people to support your
project if there is no proof that this language really exists.
And please: unless you cannot proof the existance consider your project
a very personal one and do not expect people to jump on each train that
is around ...
If you need help, I mean real help on strategies, ideas and whatsoever:
you can of course contact me.
I'll send other eventual answers to this list.
Best wishes,
Sabine
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Zlatiborian
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:35:46 +0100
From: radionicaKRUG
To: Sabine Cretella <s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it>
References: <43746CE2.40105(a)wordsandmore.it>
Dear Sabine,
is no Zlatiborian language, language is serbian.
Regards,
Aleksandra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sabine Cretella" <s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it>
To:
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:05 AM
Subject: Zlatiborian
Dear Sirs,
my name is Sabine Cretella, an admin of the Neapolitan Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia on the internet available in many
languages
http://wikipedia.org.
Now there was a request to open a Wikipedia in Zlatiborian language and
there are some supporters and many opposers saying that there is no
Zlatiborian language. Now being a public library I suppose you can help
me with that matter and tell me if this language really exists - I don't
find information on the internet.
And if it exists, could you please help me out with some contacts of
people caring about that language? Institutions or whatsoever?
I really hope you can help me to clarify this point. Wikipedia aims to
protect minority languages so if Zlatiborian is one: it makes sense to
me to help these people.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best wishes,
Sabine Cretella
s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it
skype: sabinecretella
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