Influence of the social structures of the Ottoman Empire on linguistic identity in Bosnia
Keywords:
identity, strandarization, millet, serbian, bosnianAbstract
When analyzing identity in the Western Balkans, an association of language and national identity is usually made, motivated by the interpretation made of the disappearance of the Serbo-Croatian standard as an official language in the current States of the region that have their own differentiated languages.
The objective of this article is to present what is true in the concept of language as an element of national identity, observing the standardization processes; analyze where the association between language and identity comes from and contextualize these issues in the Western Balkans, paying special attention to the influence that the millet organization of the Ottoman Empire had on the creation of a linguistic identity in Bosnia.
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