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City of Kastav Zakona kastafskega 3 HR — 51215 KASTAV Save www.kastav.hr endangered Part of 27 Neighbourhoods Flagship Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture CROATIA languages! FLAGSHIP PROGRAM MANAGER: Branka Cvjetičanin What we know: [email protected] Languages are endangered [email protected] Facebook: 27susjedstava What we want: Instagram: boljevasnasli_27s To protect linguistic rights of many STEPS – Pass it on project: passiton-steps.com/projects/kastav/ ParticipatinG NEIGHBOURHOODS: What we do: Čavle, Vrbnik, Kastav, Drenova, We are kicking off the European platform Kostrena, UNIRI - Campus to share and support the idea of regional and minority languages awareness through education, research and EUROPEAN CAPITAL developing teaching materials and tools OF CULTURE Join the movement! Heritage is condensed knowledge When a language dies, what happens to culture? City of Kastav 2020 Part of 27 Neighbourhoods Flagship Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture CROATIA In the Anthropocene humans have language is language is not only significantly depleted global definitely endangered extinct when there are ecology but are equally endangering when children no longer learn the language as no speakers left own cultural heritage. The extinction of their mother tongue in their homes languages prevents us permanently from The Primorje-Gorski kotar county is the approaching the entire cultures. This language is area of exceptional linguistic dialects process needs our immediate attention. severely endangered and idioms. One of them is the Kastav when spoken only by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may Chakavian that is spoken by less than language is understand it, they do not speak it to children or 1000 people. The linguistic micro- among themselves safe when spoken by all generations; environment of the Kastav neighborhood intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted is the starting point in building the language is language is European collaborative platform critically endangered connecting the European neighborhoods vulnerable when most children speak when the youngest speakers are grandparents the language, but it may be restricted to certain and older, and they speak the language partially in the context of Rijeka 2020 European domains (e.g., home) and infrequently Capital of Culture as a starting point..