The cover and articles of this issue are a tribute to Croatian Language Month. From the Bosnia and Herzegovina edition of Večernji list newspaper, we “borrowed” an interview with Jelena Nadinić, PhD, from Buenos Aires, one of the participants in the 5th Croatian Emigrant Congress to be held in Mostar
Dear readers, we present you the 3rd issue of the Matica magazine in 2022. We published plenty of, hopefully, interesting things for you to read in the span of our usual 68 pages. The cover and articles of this issue are a tribute to Croatian Language Month. Find out what the research team of linguists has discovered in the Y generation hereditary speakers of the Croatian language in the diaspora on four continents in an extensive conversation with the team leader, a prominent linguist, Jim Hlavac, PhD, of Monash University in Melbourne. From the Bosnia and Herzegovina edition of Večernji list newspaper, we “borrowed” an interview with Jelena Nadinić, PhD, director of the postgraduate study in Phytocosmetics at the University of Buenos Aires, one of the participants in the 5th Croatian Emigrant Congress to be held in Mostar at the beginning of the summer.
In this issue of the Croatian mountains series, we provide about ten pages of valuable written and photo material about the Dinara mountain range. From other features and invaluable contributions of our columnists, we single out reports from the two sessions of the parliamentary committees and the Croatian National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina where the complex political situation in the neighboring country was discussed. We also wrote extensively about the opening of a large exhibition in Trieste where the donation of the great ballet artist Yelko Yuresha to the Zagreb Museum of Arts and Crafts was presented, the celebrations of Stepinčevo, the three Marys, the most prominent Croatian Czechs…
Text: Željko Rupić
Content
Columns
8 Global Croatia Vesna Kukavica
32 Cues in Communication Sanja Vulić
40 The Botany of our Highlands Darko Mihelj
44 Click: Going Home Vesna Kukavica
62 Movement/Aberration Šimun Šito Ćorić
4 Parliamentary Committees on Bosnia and Herzegovina
5 Croatian National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
6 Stepinčevo
7 Introduction of the EURO
9 Congratulations from Milanović to Boric
10 Support to Croats in Montenegro
11 Croatian Language Month
12 Interview: Linguist Jim Hlavac, PhD
16 Great exhibition in Trieste
18 Conference on Strategic Communication of Countries
20 Croats in Wiesbaden
22 Monograph on Katolje
23 Croatian calendar in Hungary
24 New books
26 Croatian classes in Stuttgart
27 Croatian classes in Rome
28 Interview: Jelena Nadinić, PhD
32 Dinara Nature Park
33 Dinara – a mountain on which Croatia touches the sky
38 Historical reflections on Medvednica
46 Three Marys, Croatian Czechs
48 Lectorate of the Croatian language in Punta Arenas
51 In memory
52 International Scientific Cooperation
54 Croatian Catholic mission in Ireland
57 Nova riječ Magazine – Subotica
60 Čilić Foundation
61 50th Skifest of the Croatian Fraternal Union
62 Hrvatski stećak awarded to Š. Šito Ćorić
64 Crorama
66 Crosport