Karakteristična i frekventna leksika orijentalnog porijekla u govoru Bošnjaka Albanije
Characteristic and Frequent Oriental Lexicon in the Speech of Bosniaks in Albania

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the characteristic and more frequent lexicon of Oriental origin that forms an important core of the lexical system of Bosniaks who have been settled in Albania for over a century and a half, in the Durrës district, in the villages of Borak and Kodžas. The Oriental lexicon in the speech of Bosniaks in Albania reflects their habits which were adopted in their native region before their migratory activities. This lexicon remains a key and integrative linguistic factor outside the native area because the Bosniaks continued to use it. Their expression is dominated by words of Oriental origin which, from the perspective of modern Bosnian language, belong to the layer of passive lexicon. This lexicon reflects the cultural background, specifically the Oriental-Islamic civilizational sphere which had a significant influence on all aspects of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Ottoman Empire. The Bosniaks managed to transfer the accumulated experience from their homeland to new generations through the use of this lexicon, reflecting their awareness of themselves, their identity, and allowing them to define themselves as a unique phenomenon in the Albanian socio-cultural space. This refers to the Oriental lexicon which in the standard language has the status of passive lexicon or dialectisms, meaning it has been marginalized in the standard language due to standardization and preference for its more modern lexical equivalents. Their speech includes Orientalisms that were known not only in the Herzegovinian speech area but also in the broader Bosnian speech zone, including the Sandžak dialect of the Bosnian language, which has a somewhat wider usage when discussing its spread within the South-Slavic speech diasystem. Such Orientalisms will be marked as general-use Orientalisms (gen. or.). In addition to these, their speech also contains Oriental lexicon specific to the Bosniak dialectal area in Albania, which will be marked as (reg. or.).

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