Digital Dictionary of the South Serbian Dialect

Abstract

Digital dictionary of the South Serbian dialect is the first
comprehensive implementation of digital versions of a vocabulary dialect
of the Serbian language, based on the dialect of southern Serbia,
by Prof. Dr.Momčilo Zlatanović. It was published at www.vranje.co.rs
and initially contained 10,950 terms. This is the first digital resource
in the Serbian language, which, in addition to linguistic information,
provides a number of others: sound information (pronunciation) of
terms and examples of the use of words or phrases as they are spoken
in the dialect; graphic information about the geographical location
using concepts of Google Maps and Geocoding services; statistical
information, which cannot be or is difficult to obtain using conventional
vocabulary, of the etymological origin of the words (as it is from
Turkish, Persian, Latin, etc.). It also contains information on certain
types of words, use of words, origin, meaning, etc.; linking vocabulary
and sharing its content through social networks. Another important
aspect of the dictionary is that it works as a wiki resource, that is, it
allows web users to expand and complement the dictionary in three
ways: by adding entries that are not in the dictionary, introducing and
applying examples of use of existing concepts and commenting and
pointing to new meanings, creating new etymological templates and
adding new toponymic characteristics related to the origin and the application
range of the given terms. Tools were developed to provide
general information on the trend of the growth and use of vocabulary
- frequency of search terms, the current number of terms, the number
of users working on the development of vocabulary and so on.