Adriatic-Chakavian Wiki
Welcome in our new project Adriatic-Chakavian Wiki or WikiCha
KEYWORDS: Adriatic, islands, history, medieval, dialects, Chakavian, Glagolitic, Croatia, Mediterranean
Chakavian title: Adrianski internetni Velikaz va čakavsken ganu
Old-Croatian Wiki-encyclopedia & internet-library in Chakavian
ABSTRACT: Adriatic Wiki-Encyclopaedia and Library in Chakavian. This is a new Wiki-Encyclopaedia and Internet-Library in medieval Old-Croatian i.e. Chakavian. It is free for listening and comments, and also for copying by GNU-license. This includes also an open Internet-Library with the original authorized contributions in poetry, prose, scientific news and the last discoveries. The main title must be in old-Croatian dialects i.e. in Chakavian (or also Kaykavian), with added subtitles in English, and in modern Serbocroat. Chakavian speaking in medieval times included 1/3 of central and southwestern Croatia, being the main official language of Croatian Kingdom. Then it was repressed by Turkish invasions; now it is restricted chiefly in southwestern Croatia including nearly all Adriatic islands, Istra peninsula, and minor scattered enclaves in Vinodol and Gacka vallevs and elsewhere to Mid-Croatia. During recent centuries, Chakavian was mostly restricted to private conversation, local poetry and folklore; this WikiCha is its new public reappearance on the world Internet. The main topics here are: Chakavian ethno-culture, its geographic-ecological ecumena, Glagolitic script, and comparable regional topics of Adriatic ecumena. If an article is written in Chakavian (or Kaykavian) - then it can cover any topic in world. Most articles here have an English subtitle, and longer ones include also an English Abstract in first chapter. Included sub-projects (professional lexicons): Wiki-flora Adriatica (Mediterranean plants); Origin of Croats (ancestors' history), and Adriatic Tsakavism (islander dialect). You are also invited to support and comment this new Adriatic-Chakavian Wiki.
Professional-scientific subprojects included
Within the main coverage of this Wiki-encyclopedia (WikiCha), some special thematic groups of our superior interest so far were generally blurred and neglected in Wikipedias and elsewhere because of ignorance or for presumptions. Therefore, beside a general encyclopedia in Chakavian, this Wiki for education includes also some special thematic areas (lacking elsewhere), to be developed in details as parallel sub-projects:
l. WikiFlora Adriatica: bio-geographic survey of Mediterranean plants diversity in Adriatic islands and Croatian coasts.
2. Adriatic tsakavism: archaic non-palatal dialect of Adriatic islanders (Boduli) and of some coastal citizens.
3. Early Croats: Protohistory,
biogenetics, and early culture of Croatian ancestors prior to 7th century
4. For other similar sub-projects of wider Croatian and southeast-European interest, see also the parallel Croat-Kaykavian Wiki (WikiKay): http://yoshamya.wiki.zoho.com
Some interesting articles to be included herewith:
Chakavian-English terms in wiki, net & computers (Čakavski wiki-besidar)
Old Chakavian folk songs (Čakavske pysni)
Montenegrin-Croatian glossary (Crnogorsko-hrvatski mini-rječnik)
Vice Bune Petrov: the earliest Croatian explorer in oceans
Hadžib Badr, the first medieval Croat converted to Islam
New book: Early Croats; Genetics, ethnoculture and protohistory: 830 pages, 2008.
Why this Adriatic-Chakavian Wiki ?
1. Chakavian was the dominant official language of the medieval Croatian Kingdom, and now it predominates in its Adriatic coast and islands.
2. Because in the entire Croatian Wikipedia no any article in Chakavian is completely lacking, being scarcely noticed as exotic marginalia only.
3. Because Croatian Wikipedia is chiefly diriged by inlander Balkanic culture, including almost nothing or rare provisional stubs on sea, navigation, and Mediterranean ecumenas.
4. Because the fundamental human right is a free access to proper cultural heritage in his mother language: that for many Chakavians and Kaykavians is not the newly imposed hybrid pidgin (Vukopis) being hardly comprehensible to 1/2 Croats.
External links
Croatian Wikipedija, a general wiki in new SerboCroatian: http://hr.wikipedia.org
New Wiki on Croatian history and culture: http://hr.metapedia.org
Croatian wiki-articles in Wikinfo:
http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Croatian_topics
Parallel Wiki on the Kaykavian culture of nordwest Croatia:http://yoshamya.wiki.zoho.com
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