Bosniens rudimentärster Kontakt mit dem Deutschen – Die Posavina als Nachhut der großen Schwabensiedlung
Bosnia's most rudimentary contact with German - The Posavina as the rear guard of the large Swabian settlement

Author(s): Hermann Scheuringer
Subject(s): Language studies, Foreign languages learning, Regional Geography, Recent History (1900 till today), Sociolinguistics
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: language; German; Bosnia; Posavina;
Summary/Abstract: Within the history of German settlement in East Central and South East Europe, Bosnia seems to be an area outside. Nevertheless, it has been, although marginally, only, part of medieval ‘Saxon’ settlement as well as of the later, so-called ‘Swabian’ settlement of Germans in this part of Europe. This paper is supposed to draw attention to this fact and, in short, present the main aspects of German as a quasi-autochthonous language spoken by native speakers of German in Bosnia and Herzegovina up to the middle of the twentieth century.

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