Czech minority in Banat-Romania: A social geography survey

Costachie, Silviu; Bogan, Elena; Soare, Ionica; Barakova, Adela

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“…We argue that, in a similar vein, the most likely explanation for the observed differences in song dialects is that New Zealand yellowhammers have retained song structures that were present in both countries originally, but were lost from the source population in the UK subsequently. Such a phenomenon has been demonstrated in the much more complex system of human languages, for example in colonial English dialects (Hickey 2005) or in isolated Czech villages in Romanian Banat (Costachie et al 2011).…”

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Dialects of an invasive songbird are preserved in its invaded but not native source range

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Biological invasions are not only events with substantial environmental and socioeconomic impacts but are also interesting natural experiments, allowing the study of phenomena such as the cultural evolution of bird song following introduction. We took an excellent opportunity to compare the distribution of dialects of the yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella, a small Eurasian passerine, in its native source region (Great Britain) and invaded range (New Zealand) more than hundred years after relocation. Recent field recordings (including those provided by volunteers within a citizen science project) were complemented by those from archives, each assigned to appropriate dialect by visual inspection of a sonogram, and the resulting spatial patterns of dialect distribution were interpreted using historical data on the yellowhammer invasion. The two countries differ markedly in the composition and distribution of dialects. New Zealand populations sing a greater number of different dialects, seven in total, five of which were not detected in the current British population, but have been reported by previous studies from the continental Europe. Two identified localities of capture (Brighton, Sussex, UK) and release (Dunedin, Otago, NZ) differ even more strikingly, having no dialects in common. The largely sedentary nature of yellowhammers allows for two mutually exclusive explanations for European dialects being detected in New Zealand but not in Great Britain: 1) the corresponding song types have emerged de novo in New Zealand, through convergent cultural evolution; 2) the dialects have disappeared from Great Britain, while being preserved in New Zealand. Indirect evidence from the widespread occurrence of these dialects in continental Europe and the reported stability of yellowhammer song, supports the latter explanation. We suggest that the yellowhammer dialect system is an avian equivalent of a phenomenon already noted in human languages, in which ancient words or structures are retained in expatriate communities. IntroductionBiological invasions can be a potential threat to the environment (Pyšek et al. 2012, Kumschick et al. 2015, Martin-Albarracin et al. 2015 and economy (Pimentel et al. 2005, Kettunen et al. 2009), but they can also provide a golden opportunity to study evolutionary, behavioural or ecological phenomena on spatial and temporal scales ResearchDialects of an invasive songbird are preserved in its invaded but not native source range

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“…Environmentally friendly tourism has developed primarily in the Czech villages in the whole Danube gorge thanks to the Czech support. Approximately 6.000 Czech tourists per year come to the Banat region (Costachie et al, 2011).…”

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“…Especially the young people got used to spending evenings watching Romanian TV programmes. Talks among neighbours, once so favourite, were reduced only for Sundays (Pavlásek, 2006;Pákozdiová, 2012;Costachie et al, 2011). Another, today already common, device is an automatic washing machine.…”

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Local Community Versus Globalization Tendencies: Case Study of Czech Villages in Romanian Banat Region

Šantrůčková

Pákozdiová

Hamanová

2014

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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The research question is the relationship between the local community and globalization tendencies and transformation or maintenance of local traditions. The research area is a specific locality of a Czech village in Romanian Banat. The local community has evolved in a relative isolation. Agriculture was the most important activity despite the fact that a mining factory was opened there. Agriculture was and in many features still is traditional, self-supplying, and hard-work. The life-style has always been environmentally friendly as it has been without modern technologies. Nevertheless, modernization exploded dramatically in these villages after 1989, when the communist policies collapsed along with Romania's isolation. People from the Czech Republic have rediscovered Romanian Banat and a rather busy (agro) tourism has developed there. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs supports development projects for making living conditions in the village better. Simultaneously, strong migration from Banat to the Czech Republic has started. People find living conditions in the Czech Republic easier and leave hard work, poverty and unemployment. It brings huge land cover changes because people who remain cannot use all arable land, which is thus abandoned and left for the natural process. One of the distinct manifestations of globalization tendencies is the build-up of wind power plants.

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Czech language minority in the South-eastern Romanian Banat

Vyskočilová

2016

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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This article concerns a Czech language minority living in the south-western Romanian region of Banat. First an overview of the situation of Banatian Czech speakers is given, both from a historical and a contemporary perspective, followed by a sociolinguistically focused description of the linguistic conditions present in this language island. Next, the article examines seven syntactic and morphosyntactic structures found in Bígr Czech, namely three word order phenomena, use of the indefinite determiner, totality quantifiers and prepositional phenomena. Using the specialized corpora, BANAT for Banatian Czech (BC) and the ORAL corpus for Common Czech (CC), the BC and CC structures are compared to reveal that some of the investigated features previously assigned as characteristic for Bígr Czech are equally present in Common Czech spoken in the Czech Republic.

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Czech minority in Banat-Romania: A social geography survey

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Dialects of an invasive songbird are preserved in its invaded but not native source range

Dialects of an invasive songbird are preserved in its invaded but not native source range

Local Community Versus Globalization Tendencies: Case Study of Czech Villages in Romanian Banat Region

Czech language minority in the South-eastern Romanian Banat

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