BH ACADEMIC DŽEVAD JAHIĆ PASSED AWAY

SARAJEVO, APRIL 21 (ONASA) – Dževad Jahić, Bosnian linguist, poet and academic, died today at the age of 77.
This sad information was shared on Facebook by the president of the Bosnian cultural community ‘Preporod’ Sanjin Kodrić.
“He was our most important linguist-Bosnian. A noble and good man, a teacher and a friend… May God be merciful to him”, were the words Kodrić used to say goodbye to Jahić.
Jahić was born on August 15, 1948. He finished primary and secondary school in Rogatica. He completed his studies of Serbo-Croatian language and Yugoslav literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1973. He defended his master’s thesis entitled “Hunting Terminology and Hunting Jargon in the Speech of the Rogatic Region” at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 1977. He defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “The Ijekavskošćakavian languages of eastern and southeastern Bosnia” in 1981 at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade.
He worked at the Institute for Language and Literature in Sarajevo. He has been working at the Faculty of Philosophy since 1975. In 1983, he was elected as an assistant professor, in 1989, as an associate professor, and in 2002, as a full professor on the subjects Historical Grammar and History of the Bosnian Literary Language. From 1989 to 1993, he was a lecturer and lecturer of the Serbo-Croatian language and Yugoslav literature at the Department of Slavic Languages of the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow State University.
The areas of Jahić’s scientific interest were dialectology, language history, sociolinguistics, from which he published a large number of works in scientific journals (South Slavic Philology, Collection of Philology and Linguistics, Slavjanskoje Slavjanovedenie, Pregled, Volumes of the Institute for the Study of National Relations).
He was a member of the Bosnian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In addition to scientific work, he also engaged in literary work, and published several collections of poems.
As a member of the BANU academy, he stood out with his speech about the Bosnian language, and on one occasion he said:
“To challenge Bosniaks’ language is just manipulation and a means to tell someone who exists and lives a language that it doesn’t exist and doesn’t live. Which, to say the least, is Balkan nonsense and it’s a tragedy, but not only our Bosnian, but a broader one in which we intellectuals pretentiously say, every time we deeply worry about it, we talk about it and try to appeal to the public and responsible people to finally understand what culture, heritage, and history are, and what manipulation of that heritage and that history is. emphasized Jahić.
He is the author of the following works: “Sedra pelinova”, “Trešnjev bunar”, “Vitorin vres”, “Ijekavskoštakavski govori oštečne Bosnia”, “Stakleni mejt”, “Bosniak narod i njego jezig”, “Dictionary of the Bosnian language” and others. (end)