On Monday, March 5, 2018, in the Language Institute of the University of Sarajevo a working meeting on “Challenges of Contemporary Southern Slavistics” were held. The meeting was attended by members of the Institute of Language and the delegation from the Institute for Macedonian Language “Krste Misirkov”, led by the director dr. Elena Jovanova-Gruevska, as well as from the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature, headed by Novica Vujević. After mutual acquaintance, the representatives of all three institutions presented their work in short, and then some of the current issues that were common to the development of the Bosnian, Montenegrin and Macedonian languages were opened. The participants exchanged their experiences, the older member gave some recommendations to younger, and all these issues will be discussed in the coming days, when public discussions about macedonian and montenegrin language are planned.