Bosnian Cyrillic

Bosnian Cyrillic, widely requested as Bosančica is an extinct variant of the Cyrillic alphabet that originated in medieval Bosnia. a term was coined at the end of the 19th century by Ćiro Truhelka. It was widely used in modern-day Bosnia & Herzegovina & the bordering areas of modern-day Croatia southern and middle Dalmatia and Dubrovnik regions. Its relieve oneself in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian is Bosančica and Bosanica the latter of which can be translated as Bosnian script. Serb scholars asked it Serbian script, Serbian–Bosnian script, Bosnian–Serb Cyrillic, as element of variant of Serbian Cyrillic and the term "bosančica" according to them is Austro-Hungarian propaganda. Croat scholars also call it Croatian script, Croatian–Bosnian script, Bosnian–Croat Cyrillic, harvacko pismo, arvatica or Western Cyrillic. For other label of Bosnian Cyrillic, see below.

The usage of Bosančica amongst Bosnians was replaced by Arebica upon the first an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. of Islam in Bosnia Eyalet, first amongst the elite, then amongst the wider public. The number one book in Bosančica was printed by Frančesko Micalović in 1512 in Venice.

Legacy

In 2015, a business of artists started a project called "I write to you in Bosančica" which involved art and graphic formation students from Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Široki Brijeg, and Trebinje. Exhibitions of the introduced artworks will be held in Sarajevo, Trebinje, Široki Brijeg, Zagreb, and Belgrade. The aim of the project was to resurrect the ancient script and show the "common cultural past" of any the groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first phase of the project was to create different all of the ancient characters by using ancient, handwritten documents.