Bosnian Cyrillic
Bosnian Cyrillic, widely known as Bosančica is an extinct variant of the Cyrillic alphabet that originated in medieval Bosnia. The term was coined at the end of the 19th century by Ćiro Truhelka. It was widely used in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and the bordering areas of modern-day Croatia (southern and middle Dalmatia and Dubrovnik regions). Its name in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian is "Bosančica" and "Bosanica" the latter of which can be translated as "Bosnian script". Serb scholars call it "Serbian script", "Serbian–Bosnian script", "Bosnian–Serb Cyrillic", as part 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 names of Bosnian Cyrillic, see below. The use of Bosančica amongst Bosnians was replaced by Arebica upon the introduction of Islam in Bosnia Eyalet, first amongst the elite, then amongst the wider public. The first book in Bosančica was printed by Frančesko Micalović in 1512 in Venice. History and characteristic features. It is hard to ascertain when the earliest features of a characteristic Bosnian type of Cyrillic script had  begun to appear, but paleographers consider the Humac tablet (a tablet written in Bosnian Cyrillic) to be the first document of this type of script and is believed to date from the 10th or 11th century. Bosnian Cyrillic was used continuously until the 18th century, with sporadic usage even taking place in the 20th century. Historically, Bosnian Cyrillic is prominent in the following areas: In conclusion, main traits of Bosnian Cyrillic include: Polemics. The polemic about "ethnic affiliation" of Bosnian Cyrillic started in the 19th century, then reappeared in the mid-1990s. The polemic about attribution and affiliation of Bosnian Cyrillic  texts seems to rest on following arguments: The irony of the contemporary status of Bosnian Cyrillic is this: some scholars are still trying to prove that Bosnian Cyrillic is ethnically theirs, while simultaneously relegating the corpus of texts written in Bosnian Cyrillic to the periphery of national culture. This extinct form of Cyrillic is unrelated to Croatian paleography, which focuses on writing corpora Glagolitic and Latin Script. In addition, has a relation with Slavonic-Serb Alphabet, successor of Old Serbian Cyrillic and predecessor of Modern Serbian Cyrillic. Legacy. In 2015, a group of artists started a project called "I write  to you in Bosančica" which involved art and graphic design students from Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Široki Brijeg, and Trebinje. Exhibitions of the submitted artworks will be held in Sarajevo, Trebinje, Široki Brijeg, Zagreb, and Belgrade. The purpose of the project was to resurrect the ancient script and show the "common cultural past" of all the groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first phase of the project was to reconstruct all of the ancient characters by using ancient, handwritten documents. Names. The name "bosančica" was first used by Fran Kurelac in 1861. Other instances of naming by individuals, in scholarship and  literature or publications (chronological order, recent first):<ref name="Kempgen/Tomelleri-2019-Slavic-Alphabets-Identities"></ref>