Miloš Okuka (born August 2, 1944 in
Porije, near
Ulog
Ulog ( sr-cyrl, Улог) is a village in the municipality of Kalinovik, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known inform ...
) is a
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
linguist,
Slavist,
dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their assoc ...
and
literature historian.
After teaching as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in
Sarajevo, from 1992 till 2009 he served as a lecturer at the
University of Munich.
In 2017, Miloš Okuka has signed the
Declaration on the Common Language of the
Croats,
Serbs,
Bosniaks
The Bosniaks ( bs, Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry ...
and
Montenegrins.
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
Published works
He published several hundred papers, and the following books:
* (Munich, 1975)
* (Sarajevo, 1983)
* (Sarajevo, 1983)
* (Sarajevo, 1984)
* (Sarajevo, 1987)
* (Nikšić, 1990)
* ''A Bibliography of Recent Literature on Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovene languages'' (Munich, 1990, with Rada Lenecka)
* (Munich, 1991, with Ljilana Stančić)
* (Klagenfurt, 1998)
* - ''Bosnia and Hercegovina from 100 years ago'' (Munich - Banjaluka, 1990, with Meha Šoše)
* (Hamburg, 2003)
* (Istočno Sarajevo, 2006)
* , (2008)
Together with Josip Baotić, Miloš Kovačević and Čedomir Rebić, he authored four Serbo-Croatian textbooks for gymnasiums
A gymnasium, also known as a gym, is an indoor location for athletics. The word is derived from the ancient Greek term " gymnasium". They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centres, and as activity and learning spaces in educational ins ...
and high-schools in Bosnia and Hercegovina
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(Sarajevo, 1998-1992). For a number of years he served as the editor-in-chief of the journal '' Književni jezik''. He edited and published several proceedings, lexicons and anthologies:
* (Munich, 1994, with Petra Rehder)
* (Klagenfurt, 1995, with Klaus Olof)
* (Banja Luka, 2001)
* (Klagenfurt, 2002, with Ger Fischer)
* (Klagenfurt, 2002)
* (Sarajevo, 2002)
* (Munich, 2004, with Ulrich Schweier)
* (Sarajevo, 2005)
* ''Kvarner'' (Klagenfurt, 2007, with Ger Fischer)
* (Istočno Sarajevo, 2007)
* ''Mostar'' (Klagenfurt, 2008, with Ger Fischer)
References
Sources
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1944 births
Linguists from Serbia
Dialectologists
Living people
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language