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@wordsandmore.it References: 43746CE2.40105@wordsandmore.it
Dear Sabine, is no Zlatiborian language, language is serbian.
Regards, Aleksandra
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sabine Cretella" s.cretella@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@wordsandmore.it skype: sabinecretella
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