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The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Banat Bulgarian Literary Language: Sociolinguistic History from the Perspective of Trans-Border Interactions

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The perception of Banat Bulgarian has oscillated between the view that it is a dialect of Bulgarian and a separate language from its birth until today, a vacillation likely caused by borders. Specifically, the sociolinguistic changes in Banat Bulgarian are likely to be the consequences of border effects, i.e. crossing borders (or immigration), border modifications caused by political changes and trans-border interaction. In spite of the considerable impact of these border effects on language convergence/divergence in other Slavic languages mentioned elsewhere (cf. Busch and Kelly-Holms 2004; Hannan 1996; Woolhiser 2012), the analyses of sociolinguistic changes in the Banat Bulgarian language due to these effects have not been presented until now. Because such sociolinguistic changes can ultimately affect the identification of the speakers and vice versa, the Banat Bulgarian language, as a minority language, presents rather obvious effects on the identity of the speakers in both external and internal linguistic senses.

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Nomachi, M. (2016). The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Banat Bulgarian Literary Language: Sociolinguistic History from the Perspective of Trans-Border Interactions. In: Kamusella, T., Nomachi, M., Gibson, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-34839-5_20

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