Edward Vajda
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Edward Vajda is a historical linguist at Western Washington University. He has become known for his work on the proposed Dené-Yeniseian language family, seeking to establish that the Ket language of Siberia has a common linguistic ancestor with the Na-Dené languages of North America. He began to study the Ket language in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union; he interviewed Ket speakers in Germany and later traveled to Tomsk in southwestern Siberia to perform fieldwork.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Bryson, George (2008-03-04), “Distant Native languages bridge Bering Sea: Siberian culture's words have echo in North America”, Anchorage Daily News, <http://www.adn.com/front/story/334139.html>. Retrieved on 21 March 2008
[edit] External Links
- Vajda's homepage at Western Washington University
- Video of Vajda introducing the Ket language
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