Crumb Kepeski

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Krume Kepeski (in Cyrillic script Круме Кепески; born April 8, 1909 in Prilep , † November 3, 1988 in Skopje ) was a Yugoslav linguist .

Life

Kepeski graduated from Belgrade University in 1935 with a degree in philology . He was the author of the first book on the grammar of the Macedonian language , first published in 1946. Later he was a professor at the Skopje Pedagogical Academy . He translated literary works from Russian and from several South Slavic languages into Macedonian. In 1980, together with Šaip Jusuf , he published the first grammar of Romani spoken by Roma in Yugoslavia .

A primary school in Skopje is named after Krume Kepeski.

Works

  • Prilepski govor (The dialect of Prilep), 1941, reprinted in 1993
  • Makedonska gramatika (Macedonian grammar), 1946, 3rd expanded edition 1950
  • with Šaip Jusuf: Romani gramatika = Romska gramatika ( Romani grammar, bilingual in Romani and Macedonian), 1980

literature

  • Makedonski istoriski rečnik , 2000, ISBN 9989-624-46-1 , p. 229
  • Horace G. Lunt II, review of Makedonska gramatika in the magazine Language , vol. 27.1951, pp. 180–187


Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/files/13_briefhistory.shtml ( Memento from October 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) A grammar with a dictionary of the Kelderash dialect spoken by Northern European Roma was published in Sweden as early as 1963 .
personal data
SURNAME Kepeski, crumb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Prilep
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1988
Place of death Skopje