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W poszukiwaniu nowej tożsamości kulturowej. Kosowscy Goranie w XXI wieku

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Mindak-Zawadzka J.

Zeszyty Łużyckie

2020

vol. 54

115-127

The Kosovan Gora region is a small mountainous area in the southern part of Kosovo wedged between Albania and North Macedonia. The Gorani are Slavic people professing Islam. The Goranian ethnolect, most frequently described by the speakers themselves as našinski or našenski (‘our’, ‘local’, ‘our own way’) is an intermediary system placing itself somewhere between a strongly Balkanized southeastern Serbian dialect (Torlakian) and the peripheral western Macedonian dialects together with a significant share of Turkisms (Orientalisms), Albanisms and Romanisms (with Aromanian origin). The Kosovan Gorani are one of many South Slavic Muslim communities affected by the dramatic political, social, and cultural changes after the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. The new situation has to some extent forced the Gorani to ask themselves the question: “Who are we?” The necessity to find this out became urgent in asituation where, starting from 1999, offers of national affiliation began to pour in from almost all sides of their Balkan surroundings (formulated by Serbs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, and even by Turks or Albanians). This caused several processes of reinterpretation of their ethno-cultural identity along with the emergence of different conceptions of Goranian ethnicity: a “pure Goranity” (without any other national affiliation) or a “Goranity” combined with Bosniak or Serbian (or, rather rarely – with Bulgarian or Macedonian) national affiliation. The author focuses on a relatively new and sociolinguistically interesting phenomenon of Bosniak Identity as a national idea introduced among the Kosovan Gorani and discussed by both their local leaders and common people. The development process of the Bosniak version of Goranian national identity can be observed not only in the socio-political local activities; it is essentially connected with the Bosniak Gorani embracing the Bosnian language as their own literary language. This decision has had many important cultural and linguistic consequences, some of which are discussed in the present article.

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W poszukiwaniu nowej tożsamości kulturowej. Kosowscy Goranie w XXI wieku