Феноменът „скрита“ българска идентичност в мултиетническите Западни Балкани
The Phenomenon “Hidden” Bulgarian Identity in the Multi-Ethnic Western Balkans

Author(s): Krasimira Koleva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Sociology, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Nationalism Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Western Balkans; Gora; gorani; self-identification; nashinci; nash ezik
Summary/Abstract: In the text I analyze the linguistic situation in the Gora region in the Western Balkans. Today, most of it is in Kosovo (18 villages), 9 points are in Albania and three – in North Macedonia. The mother tongue of the compact local, late Islamized Slavic population is Bulgarian. The phenomenon of “hidden minorities” in totalitarian Yugoslavia also reflects on the social and linguistic behavior of the members of the minority community, which has learned to mimic in order to survive. They call themselves nashinci ‘our people’ and their language nash ‘ours’.

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