Bisera Suljić-Boškailo 
The Similarities of Ulfilas’ Gothic Alphabet with the Ancient Bosnian Alphabet. Bosančica, or the Illyrian-Messapian Alphabet 

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Philosophy – Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the similarities and the differences between the alphabets, as well as historical facts that show the mutual history of these three alphabets, with the goal to shine a light on the dark past of these alphabets and show where the Old-Bosnian alphabet comes from. Additionally, the paper tries to answer whether Ulfilas’ alphabet was indeed Gothic, Old-Bosnian or Illyrian since these appear to be one of the oldest alphabets in the Balkans.

The similarity and the differences of the Gothic alphabet (Ulfilas’ Biblical-Gothic alphabet from the 4th century, the alphabet, that, according to many scientists, Ulfilas had created in order to translate the Bible into Gothic), together with the Messapian alphabet, and the Old-Bosnian alphabet, which was found in the areas of Bosnia and Hercegovina and was placed in the Western variant of the Cyrillic alphabet, and with the old Messapian (Illyrian) Alphabet (which was found by the German Nobelist Mommsen, and later on the great scientist who was researching the Illyrian culture and language Hans Krahe), was not the subject of any scientific paper (except the book ‘Goths in Bosnia’ from 2016), even though these three alphabets are nearly identical according to their form and structure.