Miloš Okuka (born August 2, 1944 in
Porije, near
Ulog) is a
Serbian linguist,
Slavist
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,
dialectologist and
literature historian.
After teaching as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in
Sarajevo
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, from 1992 till 2009 he served as a lecturer at the
University of Munich
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.
In 2017, Miloš Okuka has signed the
Declaration on the Common Language
The Declaration on the Common Language ( sh, Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku / ) was issued in 2017 by a group of intellectuals and NGOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia who were working under the banner of a projec ...
of the
Croats
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,
Serbs
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The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
,
Bosniaks and
Montenegrins
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Genetics
Accordi ...
.
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 and high-schools in Bosnia and Hercegovina (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