Senahid Halilović | |
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| Born | 22 March 1958 (1958-03-22) |
| Died | 24 April 2023(2023-04-24) (aged 65) |
| Occupation | linguist |
Senahid Halilović (22 March 1958 – 24 April 2023) was aBosnianlinguist andacademician who was a member of theAcademy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] Halilović studied at theUniversity of Belgrade where he acquired hisPhD in Dialectology, exploring the East-Bosnian dialect. He published over one hundred professional and scientific papers in the field ofdialectology.[1]
Born inKladanj on 22 March 1958, Halilović is best known for his contribution to the standardisation of theBosnian language. His best known works areOrthography of the Bosnian language (Pravopis bosanskog jezika),The Bosnian language (Bosanski jezik) andGrammar of the Bosnian language (Gramatika bosanskoga jezika). Characteristics of this spelling is equidistance towards the Croatian and Serbian spelling and morphological prescriptions, and expressions that are held for the typical Bosnian norm (formalisation of the phoneme "h" in certain words in the Bosnian language as seen in the wordsmehko,lahko,kahva,mahrama). In the 2018 edition of theOrthography of the Bosnian language, Halilović accepted expressions without the phoneme "h" due to their prevalence in language practice,[2] for which he was criticised by Bosniak prescriptivists and defended by other linguists.[3]
Halilović was a founding member and president of the Slavic Committee (Bosnia and Herzegovina Association of Slavists) inBosnia and Herzegovina.[1] In September 2008, the Slavic Committee was officially inducted into theInternational Committee of Slavists, a scholarly organisation uniting various national committees ofSlavists. Halilović was signatory of theDeclaration on the Common Language of theCroats,Serbs,Bosniaks andMontenegrins.[4][5]
Halilović died on 24 April 2023, at the age of 65.[6]
