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History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
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Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
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To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.
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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20240617204742/http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/540/langdial/serbcrot.html
Map of Serbo-Croatian Dialects
Reproduced from Brabec, Ivan, Mate Kraste, and Sreten Zhivkovic
Gramatika Hrvatskoga ili Srpskog Jezika
(Zagreb, 1954)
LING 540, Language Policy
H. Schiffman, Instructor
This map of the Serbo-Croatian dialect area in (the former) Yugoslavia
shows division into the salient dialect features given in the key
accompanying the map (see also below).
The features referred to in the key refer to dialects marked by their
pronunciation of certain words, especially the word for 'what?', which
differs radically in these dialects. In some dialects it is "kai"
( Kajkavci or "Kaikavian"), in others it is
"cha" ( Cakavci or "Chakavian"), etc. The top three mentioned
(in the
key chart)
are themselves grouped into a general "Shtokavian" complex, (
shto is the word for 'what?' in those dialects, and in other Slavic
languages, e.g. in Russian, as well) while the next group is "mixed".
These features
do not coincide in any way with the usual
divisions into Serbian and Croatian, i.e. they can not be used to
determine
whether someone is a Croat, a Serb, or a Bosnian. (In fact, during the
conflicts following the collapse of Yugoslavia, people who were captured
and/or interrogated by one hostile group or another were not identified by
their speech, but by their names which would identify them as
Catholic, Orthodox, or Muslim.)
Note the artificial straight-as-an-arrow
boundary between what is indicated to be "Macedonian" (supposedly a
separate language, but closer to Bulgarian than anything else) south of
the Serbian area. Note also that Kosovo, known even in 1954 to be 90%
Albanian-speaking, is given as a totally Ekavcian area, totally
congruent with eastern "Serbian" dialects. The presence of large numbers
of Hungarians in the area around Novi Sad is also ignored; other ethnic
languages (Greek, Rumanian [Vlach], German etc.) are also ignored. The map,
then, which tries to be non-political when it comes to the Serbo-Croatian
dialects, gets political when it gets to certain borders, such as the Italian
or Austrian border, where suddenly, language habits change!
Note: I added language names such as "German", "Hungarian" etc. to clarify
what other languages are on the borders of this area.
For a really large-scale map, go to
this map
And for a political map of the area, go to this map.
Here is a better political/ethnic map of the region, from the National Geographic
and its key.
See also this source, which documents the disintegration of a unified Serbo-Croatian into
'separate' languages:
Greenberg, Robert D.
Language and Identity in the Balkans.
Serbo-Croatian and its Disintegration
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004)
haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu last modified 12/21/04.
