Ethnolinguistic studies and GIS (linguistic geography and ethnographic cartography)

U radu se sažeto prikazuju mogućnosti uporabe geografskog informacijskog sustava (GIS-a) u etnolingvističkim istraživanjima, konkretno u lingvističkoj geografiji i etnološkoj kartografiji. Sažeto se objašnjava uloga GIS-a kao računalnog alata za kartografiranje prostornih i neprostornih, odnosno etnografskih i jezičnih podataka. Opisuju se način i kriteriji odabira punktova za izradbu zemljovida Hrvatske koji svojom mrežom punktova pruža mogućnosti oglednoga kartografskog prikaza hrvatske etnojezične raznolikosti.This paper concisely explains the possibilities of using a geographic information system (GIS) in ethnolinguistic research, specifically in linguistic geography and ethnological cartography. The role of a GIS as a software tool for the mapping of spatial and non-spatial ethnographic and linguistic data is pointed out. The authors explain the different criteria for selecting network points in developing a representative map of Croatia that would provide opportunities for exemplary cartographic representation of Croatian ethnolinguistic diversity. Although both linguistic geography and ethnological cartography in Croatia have long and fruitful traditions, no attempt to integrate and compare data collected within these two disciplines has been attempted in Croatia so far, unlike in other European countries. Therefore, in this regard our ethnolinguistic atlas of Croatia indisputably represents an innovation