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  Science Fair Projects - Bosnian Cyrillic
Bosnian Cyrillic is an extinct Cyrillic script,that had mainly been used in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, Dalmatia and Dubrovnik in particular.
This is by far the most abundant corpus of works written in Bosnian Cyrillic, covering various genres, but belonging to the liturgical literature: numerous polemical tractates in the spirit of Counter-Reformation, popular tales from the Bible, catechisms, breviaries, historical chronicles, local church histories, religious poetry and didactic works.
First school insists that all Bosnian Cyrillic texts belong to the corpus of Croatian literacy, and the second school that all texts from Croatia and only a part from Bosnia and Herzegovina are to be placed into Croatian literary canon (they exclude ca.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Bosnian_Cyrillic   (1253 words)

  
 UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
Bosnian is the language of the Bosniaks, or the Bosnian Muslims.
The Latin alphabet (along with the Cyrillic alphabet used by Serbs) was reformed by linguists in the 19th century to create a one-to-one correspondence between the language's sounds and letters as well as a one-to-one correspondence between the symbols in the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
Bosnian has pitch accent, meaning that the vowel of the syllable which could be considered the stressed syllable in each word is accented with either a rising pitch or falling pitch.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=189&menu=004   (1167 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
Bosnian Cyrillic is an extinct Cyrillic script, that was used in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia (Dalmatia and Dubrovnik).
Their opinion is that Bosnian Cyrillic is neither Croat nor Serb, but "ethnically" Bosnian and, subsequently, Bosniak, as the ethnic descendants of medieval Bosnia and the native Bosnian Church.
This extinct form of Cyrillic is peripheral to Croatian paleography which focuses on Glagolitic and Latin script corpora while Bosniaks, although paying lip service to Bosnian Cyrillic heritage, have been focusing efforts on investigation of their vernacular literature in modified Arabic script.
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 News | TimesDaily.com | TimesDaily | Florence, AL
The theory is supported by the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet almost completely replaced the Glagolitic in northeastern Bulgaria as early as the end of the tenth century, whereas the Ohrid Literary School—where Saint Clement worked—continued to use the Glagolitic until the twelfth century.
Cyrillic uppercase and lowercase letter-forms are not as differentiated as in Latin typography.
The Cyrillic alphabet was used for the Azerbaijani language from 1939 to 1991.
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 Bosnia and Herzegovina at AllExperts
Bosnian history from then until the early 14th century was marked by the power struggle between the Šubić and Kotromanić families.
The Bosnian Franciscans (and the Catholic population as a whole) were protected by official imperial decree, although on the ground these guarantees were often disregarded and their numbers dwindled.
Bosnian soldiers formed a large component of the Ottoman ranks in the battles of Mohács and Krbava field, two decisive military victories, while numerous other Bosnians rose through the ranks of the Ottoman military bureaucracy to occupy the highest positions of power in the Empire, including admirals, generals, and grand viziers.
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 Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages, alphabets and pronunciation
Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages, alphabets and pronunciation
Serbian (српски), Croatian (Hrvatski) and Bosnian (Bosanski) are closely related Southern Slavonic languages formerly known collectively as Serbo-Croat.
The Serbs aligned themselves with Constantinople and the Eastern Orthodox church and adopted the Cyrillic alphabet though also use the Latin alphabet, while the Croats favoured the Roman Catholic church and the Glagolitic alphabet.
www.omniglot.com /writing/serbo-croat.htm   (459 words)

  
 Bosnian
Bosnian is more like Croatian, except for the fact that it has a large number of loanwords from Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi due to the Bosniaks' affiliation with the Islamic world.
The Cyrillic alphabet (along with the Latin alphabet, which was adopted in Catholic areas) was reformed by linguists in the 19th century to create a one-to-one correspondence between the language's sounds and letters as well as a one-to-one correspondence between the symbols in the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
Bosnian is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/bosnian.html   (1249 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced, also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
Although Cyril is almost certainly not the author of the Cyrillic alphabet, his contributions to the Glagolitic and hence to the Cyrillic alphabet are still recognised, as the latter is named after him.
Bringhurst (2002) writes "in Cyrillic, the difference between normal lower case and small caps is more subtle than it is in the Latin or Greek alphabets,..." (p 32) and "in most Cyrillic faces, the lower case is close in color and shape to Latin small caps" (p 107).
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 The Fragmentation Of Serbo-Croatian Into Three New Languages
The language spoken by Bosnian Serbs was much closer to that of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats than to that of the Serbs from Serbia or Croatia.
Bearing in mind, however, that Bosnian Serbs and Croats have already firmly established their respective national language policies, it is more likely that the Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian languages will be regarded as the three different languages of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Bosnian Muslims always seemed to be the most tolerant of the former Yugoslav nations with regard to the language issue.
www.la.wayne.edu /polisci/kdk/easteurope/sources/sucic.htm   (2892 words)

  
 Cyrillic Alphabet - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Cyrillic Alphabet, alphabet developed in the 9th century for the use of Eastern Orthodox Slavs.
Alphabet : The Earliest Alphabets : Cyrillic Alphabet
Before the war, the rural Bosnian population lived largely in concentrations of each ethnic group, but the concentrations were so interspersed as to...
encarta.msn.com /Cyrillic_Alphabet.html   (118 words)

  
 BBC Education - Languages
One of the Southern Slavonic languages, Bosnian is most closely related to Serbian, Croatian and Slovene.
Due to the Balkan conflict, the different national groups established their own official languages, and the term Bosnian is used to describe the official language of Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Bosnian is written in Latin script, but it can also be seen written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
www.bbc.co.uk /languages/european_languages/languages/bosnian.shtml   (115 words)

  
 How many languages you speak? - Soccer Fans Network Forums
Bosnian language (bosanski jezik) is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, based on the Štokavian dialect.
Bosnians have also used script, that was less standardized, so it had more versions and names: Bosančica, Bosnian Cyrillic (means the script that was originally from Bosnia), Begovica (used by Bosniak nobility).
The irony of the Bosnian language is that its speakers Bosniaks are, on the level of colloquial idiom, more linguistically homogenous than either Serbs or Croats, but have failed, due to historical reasons, to standardize their language in the crucial 19th century.
forums.soccerfansnetwork.com /showthread.php?t=35632   (1069 words)

  
 Edge Translation
Spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian language is one of the standard versions of the central south Slavic dialect based on the Shtokavian dialect primarily used in the region of Sandzak.
It is based on the western variant of the Shtokavian dialect and uses both Cyrillic and Latin Alphabets, as Bosnians and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina prefer the Latin alphabet, while Cyrillic is preferred by Bosnian Serbs.
Bosnian has a large number of loanwords from Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi due to the Bosnians' affiliation with the Islamic world.
www.edgetranslation.net /bosnian1.htm   (322 words)

  
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Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims all write in jekavian, although there is said now to be some pressure for Bosnian Serbs to write in ekavian, and the Muslims have a higher proportion of Arabo-Turkic words in their vocabulary.
Bosnians cannot be called Serbs or Croats in modern times, because those two ethnicities have come to be thought coterminous with Orthodoxy and Catholicism, respectively, and Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats co-exist in Bosnia with Muslim Slavs.
Cyrillic is an indicator of Orthodoxy, or at least of non-Catholic identity; some kinship is felt with Uniates (Orthodox in ritual but acknowledging the Pope).
www.demog.berkeley.edu /~gene/looking.glass.html   (9167 words)

  
 Cyrillic alphabet information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
The plan of the alphabet is derived from the early Cyrillic alphabet, itself a derivative of the Glagolitic alphabet, a ninth century uncial cursive usually credited to two brothers from Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
The Cyrillic alphabet was used for the Uzbek language from 1940 to 1992.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Cyrillic_alphabet   (2964 words)

  
 Cyrillic - OLPCWiki
The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced /sɪˈrɪlɪk/, also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.
Not all letters in the Cyrillic alphabet are used in every language with which it is written.
In the countries in which both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are used, people are used to seeing some content in one alphabet and some in another.
wiki.laptop.org /index.php?title=Cyrillic&printable=yes   (360 words)

  
 Bosnian language at AllExperts
The Bosnian language (bosanski jezik or босански језик) is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, based on the Štokavian dialect.The language is used by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region of Sandžak (in Serbia and Montenegro) and elsewhere.
The Bosnian alphabet uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, although Latin is used more often than Cyrillic.
The irony of the Bosnian language is that its speakers are, on the level of colloquial idiom, more linguistically homogenous than either Serbs or Croats, but failed, due to historical reasons, to standardize their language in the crucial 19th century.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/bo/bosnian_language.htm   (830 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Communicating with Bosnians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The structures and vocabularies of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian are so similar that speakers of any of them can easily understand one another; consequently, outside of the Balkans, the three languages are usually referred to as one, called Serbo-Croat.
or writing, Bosnians use both Cyrillic and Latin scripts on an equal basis, a practise that reflects the division of these languages elsewhere in the Balkans: Croatian is always written in the Latin script, whereas Serbian usually uses Cyrillic.
yrillic is named after St. Cyril, an apostle to the South Slavs who lived in the 9th century and developed the earliest version of the script to express the language of the people.
www.cp-pc.ca /english/bosnia/commun.html   (271 words)

  
 Medieval Bosnia - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
Crucial for Bosnian development was its territorial drive towards west, south-west and further south to the coast, especially toward the eastern Adriatic coast, all these being Croatian regions.
The two Cyrillic zones - eastern and western, did of course have the same origin, but their spiritual use and role in the society were quite different.
The "ahdnama" issued by the Sultan Mohammed II in 1463, allowed the Bosnian Franciscans a limited scope, but albeit important, within which to conduct their activities under the Ottoman rule.70 The ethno-cultural bridge linking Croats in Bosnia to their brethren in Croatia was thus not severed, even during the most difficult period of history.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/medi.html   (2479 words)

  
 Bosnia & Herzegovina myths for dummies :: HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
Moreover, Bosnian language is not only a «successor language» (along with Croatian and Serbian) to the old Serbo-Croatian, but also the true heir of the entire corpus of literary and linguistic works written on the Bosnia and Herzegovina soil which (although tangentially in most cases) mention the name «Bosnian language».
Bosnian Muslims’ contemporary efforts to give a historical “legitimacy” to the name of their national language are exercise in futility since the term “Bosnian language” was almost exclusively used by Croatian writers and lexicographers in 17th and 18th centuries (both in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) to designate a dialectal variant of Croatian language.
The irony of Bosnian language is that its speakers, Bosnian Muslims or Bosniaks, are, on the level of colloquial idiom, more linguistically homogenous than either Serbs or Croats, but have failed, due to historical reasons, to standardize their language in the crucial 19th century.
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/dummies.html   (4520 words)

  
 Adrian Wijemanne - Bosnian Experience in Conflict Resolution
The three Bosnian nations do not have an ethno-territorial foundation in a compact land mass as claimed by the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
The war among the Bosnian nations lasted for a much shorter duration than that in Sri Lanka - three and a half years from April 1992 to November 1995 in Bosnia as against eighteen and a half years in Sri Lanka from July 1983 to December 2001.
Despite the short duration the Bosnian war gave rise to a very big efflux of refugees - one and a half million persons as against half that number from Sri Lanka during a much longer period.
www.tamilnation.org /forum/adrian/030523bosnian.htm   (1441 words)

  
 Diwan special issue
The fact that some Franciscan writers in Bosnia called their mother tongue Bosnian too, does not bring into question the continuity of that language, but relates to the common Bosnian framework of peoples that have shared the same living space for centuries.
A logical approach to this issue should not artificially separate the Bosnian language from everything that is common and practically irreplaceable, nor should it hide everything that is undoubtedly specific or particular at any of the possible levels: phonetic, lexical, morphological or syntactic.
In the process of regulating the Bosnian language – regarding both the ongoing process and the one that is yet to come – the 'struggle for differences' with regard to our neighbours' linguistic usage is absurd and a waste of time for the Bosniak culture, already burdened with numerous basic needs.
www.diwanmag.com.ba /arhiva/diwan_SI/sadrzaj/sadrzaj2.htm   (2204 words)

  
 Serbian
Though the term "Serbo-Croatian" went out of use, it continues to be a focus of controversy due to its historical, cultural, and political connotations and to the lack of precision in the definition of the term "language." Suffice it to say that these languages are artifacts of political, rather than linguistic decisions.
The dialect picture for Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian is rather complex and is shared by all the languages.
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was revised by Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic in the 19th century.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/serbian.html   (1230 words)

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