Vojislav Nikčević ( cyrl, Војислав Никчевић; 18 January 1935 – 2 July 2007) was a Montenegrin linguist.

Life

Nikčević was born in village near

Nikšić Nikšić (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Никшић, ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 32,046 (2023 census) located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot of Trebjesa ...

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, and was educated at the

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. He was a professor at the Philological Faculty of Nikšić, University of Montenegro. He was best known for his work on promoting the

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as a separate language from Serbian. He was a prominent member of the Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts and was director of the Institute for Montenegrin Language and Philology. After his death on July 2, 2007 in

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he was buried in

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References

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