Otto Dempwolff

Otto Dempwolff (25 May 1871, Pillau, Province of Prussia – 27 November 1938, Hamburg) was a German linguist and anthropologist who became famous for his research into Austronesian languages. He was the first to publish a comprehensive theory about how many languages that are spoken on the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean can be traced back to one proto-language.

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