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The Birth and Death of Bosnian Varieties of Turkish
Abstract
Today it is widely accepted to make the assertion that the dialects of Turkish are divided into
two large branches: (I) Anatolian and (II) Balkan (or Rumelian). Anatolian dialects are divided
into three main groups, (a) Eastern, (b) Northeastern, and (c) Western, each of which has
several subgroups. These categories are based upon the classification laid down by Németh,
who included not only the Turkish dialects of western Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo in the
West Rumelian group, but also those of Albania, Bosnia, and Serbia (NEƵMETH 1956: 12-56;
IDEM 1982: 119). This classification has been in continuous use up to the present day
(TRYJARSKI 1990: 441; KARAHAN 1996: 1-2). I do not think BVT can be considered a Balkan
dialect of Turkish, although it developed on the basis of an Old Ottoman substratum brought
to Bosnia by the Ottomans. Bosnians did not replace their maternal (Bosnian) language with a
dialect of Turkish and impose non-Turkish characteristics on it, as was the case with
autochtonous non-Turks in other parts of the Ottoman Empire who dropped their native
languages and adopted Turkish varieties. WRT is the native language of Turkish immigrants in
western Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo, while the Bosnian variety, which came into being as
a result of the cultural and business contacts between the local South Slavic population and
native speakers of Turkish, had to be learned as a foreign language. Aside from that, they did
not use Bosnian Turkish when communicating with one another in public (which was almost
universally noted by foreign travel writers) or within the family. We do not know enough even
about how well it was spoken by Muslim women, whose education was generally limited to
elementary religious instruction in maktabs, and whose social contacts consisted of immediate
family members and relatives. BVT was never spoken by the majority of the population, which
is why it died out after the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina began in
1878.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Language Documentation and Description
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Ekrem čaušević
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publication Date
December 5, 2024
Submission Date
October 9, 2023
Acceptance Date
August 5, 2024
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 14 Number: 24-25
APA
čaušević, E. (2024). The Birth and Death of Bosnian Varieties of Turkish. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, 14(24-25), 11-18. https://izlik.org/JA73GA84UH
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1.čaušević E. The Birth and Death of Bosnian Varieties of Turkish. JofEL. 2024;14(24-25):11-18. https://izlik.org/JA73GA84UH
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čaušević, Ekrem. 2024. “The Birth and Death of Bosnian Varieties of Turkish”. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi 14 (24-25): 11-18. https://izlik.org/JA73GA84UH.
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čaušević, Ekrem. “The Birth and Death of Bosnian Varieties of Turkish”. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, vol. 14, no. 24-25, Dec. 2024, pp. 11-18, https://izlik.org/JA73GA84UH.
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1.Ekrem čaušević. The Birth and Death of Bosnian Varieties of Turkish. JofEL [Internet]. 2024 Dec. 1;14(24-25):11-8. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA73GA84UH