Get Involved
9. Novigrad/Cittanova, 2022. The opening of the exhibition curated by ISTROX and the Lapidarium Museum.
If you speak or understand Istro-Romanian, you can help us preserve a record of this disappearing language. Your input is immensely valuable for our project.
Back in August 2020 we started a new phase of our project, for which we will need the help of speakers of Istro-Romanian. Our study is partly based on an online platform – called Zooniverse – onto which we have uploaded audio clips taken from the recordings made by Tony Hurren during the 1960s. We invite all speakers of Vlaški and of Žejanski to listen to the recordings and perform a number of simple tasks in order to help us understand more about the language.
This process will require no other knowledge than an ability to understand the language. You do not need to speak it regularly to take part in our study. All the instructions on the platform are in Croatian as well as English.
There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. We just want to hear your opinions about the recorded material that you are presented with: for instance, you will be invited to tell us about what you can understand from the audio clips and whether you would say the same thing in the same way today.
We will acknowledge your participation in everything that we publish as a result of our project, if you are happy for us to do so.
If you would like to contribute to our project, click here to go to ISTROX on ZOONIVERSE
If you have friends or relatives who speak Istro-Romanian and who may want to help with our project, please direct them towards our project page on Zooniverse.
If you would like to keep in touch with us, please read the document linked below (VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT INFORMATION) and fill in the form at the bottom of this page.
For any questions, please use the Contact Form on this website.
