Object and verbal codes in folk culture of Bosnian and Serbian Muslims

Abstract

Object and verbal codes are analyzed from the point of view of communication between Muslim Slavs and the Christian Orthodox in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Communicative points of convergence of representatives of two different confessions are being researched on the basis of the data taken from the traditional calendar and folk mythology. Archaic features in the tradition of the Central South Slavic area are common to representatives of the two confessions, as indicated by the mutual vocabulary of traditional folk culture and the corresponding extralinguistic contexts.