Educational and linguistic activity of Sali Gjuka

• Author: Ragip Gjoshi
• Position: University of Prizren 'Ukshin Hoti'
• Pages: 178-187

Vol. 4 No. 1

January, 2020

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

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Educational and linguistic activity of Sali Gjuka

Ragip Gjoshi

University of Prizren ”Ukshin Hoti”

“Only with the advancement of education can the fog of the blinding darkness be lost or

dissolved; this is how the blossom of the century is won, otherwise the stock of ignorance

cannot be fought...” ( Sali Gjukë Dukagjinit)1

Abstract

Among the activists of the Albanian National Renaissance, one of the most prominent fi gures

of Kosovo and all over Albania in the fi eld of Albanian education, culture and science is

also distinguished Democrat from Dukagjini, Salih Gjuka, o en referred to as Sali Gjukë

Dukagjini. He is the fi rst Albanian language teacher for the Albanian students, at the Normal School

and the Gymnasium of Skopje, who did not spare anything for the freedom and independence

of the Fatherland, to distribute the light of knowledge in Albanian territories. A er 1960s very

li le is wri en and spoken for his activity and contribution in educational, school materials, publicity,

poetry, folklore, ethnography and especially in the fi eld of linguistics.2 Among the most meritorious

for identifying the activity and work that stands behind the pseudonym Gjuk Shala, Xhuk and Gjuk

Dukagjini, Shqypja (1911-1912) is the passionate scholar of this author. He appears indirectly in the

studies done by many authors3. Pirraku had identifi ed that behind this pseudonym stand the works of

this Renaissance man, collaborator of the magazine "Shkupi". In 1910, Gjuka published the linguistic

work “Gramer teorik.4”

Keywords: Salih Gjuka, education, publication, grammar, linguistics.

1 This statement is extracted from the writings of Sali Gjukë Dukagjini “On the Development of Education in

Albania” ("Përlindj' e Shqypnies" Newspaper, National Government Edition, Volume I, Vlora, 24/6, August

l913). Whereas, appraisals of this bright mind are also highlighted in the press of the time: "Salih Gjuka,

this calm mind and this acting idealist, not just for propaganda, but especially for action." - writes Tiel (a

pseudonym author) "In Memoriam for Sali Gjuka ”, Afrimi, Vlora, 28 November 1925, p.2. Similarly Lekë

Zeza (also pseudonym), Albanian Students' Club of Thessaloniki, Tirana, 1944, p.22.

2 Ajet Haxhiu wrote for Salih Gjuka, in the work "Hasan Prishtina and the Patriotic Movement of Kosovo,

Tirana, 1968, p.16, Shukri Rrahimi" The Vilajet of Kosovo", Pristina, 1969, p.137, 188; Jashar Rexhepagiqi,

"Development of Education and the schooling system of Albanian nationality in the territory of present-day

Yugoslavia until 1918”, Pristina, 1970, p.134, 298., Skender Laurasi, Isa Boletini, Tirana, 1969, p.197,194

as well as in ha papers "the history of Albanian people II”, Pristina, 1969, p. 346 and in “The Provisional

Government of Vlora and its activity, Tirana, 1963, p. 31-32,59,336. In particular, the activity of this patriot

is highlighted in the work published under the care of of the precious scholar Muhamet Pirraku, in his study

187 p. Pristina, 1991.

3 Ajet Haxhiu wrote for Salih Gjuka, in the work "Hasan Prishtina and the Patriotic Movement of Kosovo,

Tirana, 1968, p.16, Shukri Rrahimi" The Vilajet of Kosovo", Pristina, 1969, p.137, 188; Jashar Rexhepagiqi,

"Development of Education and the schooling system of Albanian nationality in the territory of present-day

Yugoslavia until 1918”, Pristina, 1970, p.134, 298., Skender Laurasi, Isa Boletini, Tirana, 1969, p.197,194

as well as in ha papers "the history of Albanian people II”, Pristina, 1969, p. 346 and in “The Provisional

Government of Vlora and its activity, Tirana, 1963, p. 31-32,59,336. In particular, the activity of this patriot

is highlighted in the work published under the care of of the precious scholar Muhamet Pirraku, in his study

187 p. Pristina, 1991.

4 This information was fi rst given by Jup Kastrati.