Vojislav Nikčević

Template:Short description Template:Expand Russian Template:Infobox person Vojislav Nikčević (Template:Lang-cyrl; 18 January 1935 – 2 July 2007<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>) was a Montenegrin linguist.

Life

Nikčević was born in Template:Ill village near Nikšić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was educated at the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia. He was a professor at the Philological Faculty of Nikšić, University of Montenegro.

He was best known for his work on promoting the Montenegrin language 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.<ref>What kind of Montenegrin language?</ref>

After his death on July 2, 2007 in Belgrade he was buried in Cetinje.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>