Balcanica 2020 Issue 51, Pages: 65-104
https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2051065S
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Assessing linguistic vulnerability and endangerment in Serbia a critical survey of methodologies and outcomes
Sorescu-Marinković Annemarie (Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade), annarie.sorescu@bi.sanu.ac.rs
Mirić Mirjana (Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade), mirjana.miric@bi.sanu.ac.rs
Ćirković Svetlana (Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade), svetlana.cirkovic@bi.sanu.ac.rs
The paper offers a critical survey of vulnerable and endangered languages and
linguistic varieties in Serbia presented in three international inventories:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, Ethnologue and The
Catalogue of Endangered Languages. As the inventories differ widely in terms
of assessing the exact level of language endangerment and vulnerability, and
lack to provide empirical support for their assessment, the paper provides
thorough information from official local sources, relevant studies and the
authors’ own field research, when available, on the language categorized as
endangered (Aromanian, Banat Bulgarian, Judezmo, Vojvodina Rusyn, Romani),
but also presents additional linguistic varieties which have not been
registered yet by any of the mentioned inventories (Megleno-Romanian, Bayash
Romanian and Vlach Romanian).
Keywords: sociolinguistics, language vulnerability, language endangerment, language vitality, language documentation, minority languages, Serbia