UTICAJ PRESTANKA KORIŠTENJA AREBICE NA SVIJEST BOŠNJAKA O SVOM IDENTITETU U JUGOSLAVIJI
THE EFFECT OF PUTTING ARABICA OUT OF USE AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS ON IDENTITY OF BOSNIAKS IN YUGOSLAVIA

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper tries to show how the change of alphabet or eliminating the use of Arabic alphabet correlates with the Bosniaks awareness of their own identity. The author use method of analogy to shows how important is the exploitation for the Arabic script in the life of Muslims, that is, in this example, the Bosniaks for which Islam was the religion. The author analyzes the literature that was available on Arabic scripture in Bosnian language, ant takes his conclusions drawn on the basis of interviews with people who have used the Arabic scripture to write Bosnian language, he also performs a comparison between the abolition of the use of Arabic script in Turkey and Yugoslavia, and analyze the effects in order to realize the consequences of such decisions and the benefits and disadvantages that it brings.

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