Language materiality of the unwritten dialect: Newspaper “Рилиндя” / “Rilindja” of Albanians in the Budzhak region in the mid-1990s
Language materiality of the unwritten dialect: Newspaper “Рилиндя” / “Rilindja” of Albanians in the Budzhak region in the mid-1990s

Author(s): Aleksandra DUGUSHINA
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Keywords: Balkan linguistics; Gorani people
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the newspaper “Рилиндя” / “Rilindja”, which was published in the 1990s by the local intellectuals in the Albanian-speaking village of Karakurt in the Bolgrad district of the Odessa region (Ukraine). Using the notion of language materiality, the unwritten Albanian dialect is analyzed in the context of entering the local linguistic landscape as a marker of identity (such as public festivals, fairs, concerts, or calendar feasts, involving visual labelling). Exampling excerps of the newspaper shows various attempts to create an alphabet and a system of rules for the Albanian dialect which reflects the different strategies of using Cyrillic or Latic script in connection with local traditions and standard Albanian.

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