Die Stellung des deutschen Transfergutes in der bosnischen Gegenwartssprache
The position of the German loanwords in the contemporary Bosnian language

Author(s): Nenad Memić
Subject(s): Language studies, Recent History (1900 till today), Lexis, Sociolinguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: Bosnian; German; loanwords;
Summary/Abstract: The following paper aims at describing the position of German loanwords in the modern Bosnian language. The main focus of the paper is laid on the origin of German loanwords and their sociolinguistic variation in Bosnian. The vast majority of German loanwords in Bosnian hails either from the Austrian variety of Standard German or from Bavarian-Austrian dialects. They were adopted in Bosnian mostly during the Austro-Hungarian time (1878 to 1918). In Bosnian, these loanwords can be found in all language varieties nowadays: from the standard to the colloquial language and sociolects. This paper describes some important aspects of the diatopic (standard and colloquial language, sociolects) and diaphasic (formal and informal style) variation of German loanwords in modern Bosnian.

• Details
• Contents