Per una storia comparata dei turchismi in bulgaro e bosniaco/bosgnacco
Journal: IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
Year: 2012

The strong and persistent language contact with (Ottoman) Turkish to which all Balkan Slav dialects had been exposed for centuries resulted in an extensive borrowing of Turkish lexical units. Despite the fact that since the 19th century the socio-political development (de-orientalization, nation building etc.) of Balkan countries and, most of all, purist approaches in the standardization of national languages have led to a substantial decrease in the number of Turkisms, Turkish lexical heritage