ARAPSKI JEZIK U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI DANAS
ARABIC LANGUAGE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TODAY

Summary/Abstract: Learning process of any language faces with certain difficulties which deserve certain studies and researches. Therefore theoretical linguistics, which has for many years been exclusive subject matter of linguistic studies, has yielded its place to applied linguistics as a subject matter of many linguists all over the world. Since its "arrival” to these areas Arabic language has passed through some various stages in which it had its rises and falls, which can be brought into connections with the ideologies that have been dominant in various historical periods. In that sense, if we go back to the Ottoman period, we can see that there was a great interest for Oriental languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thus for the Arabic which was considered one of the "official” languages in the Ottoman Empire. However, with the decline of the Ottoman rule in these areas Oriental languages have been losing their significance. As for today’s learning of the Arabic, we consider Bosnian language as "the intermediary” to be one of the main among other obstacles and problems in the process of learning Arabic in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is at the same time the main obstacle to the efficient learning of any other foreign language.

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