Aharon Dolgopolsky
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Aharon Dolgopolsky is a Russia
n-born Israeli comparative linguist
and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
Born in Moscow
, he arrived at the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis in the 1960s, at around the same time but independently of Vladislav Illich-Svitych
. Together with Illich-Svitych, he was the first to undertake a multilateral comparison of the daughter-languages of Nostratic.
After teaching Nostratics at Moscow University for 8 years, Dolgopolsky moved to Israel in 1976, and is currently at the University of Haifa
.
Dolgopolsky is featured in the NOVA
documentary, In search of the first language.
Russia
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n-born Israeli comparative linguist
Linguistics
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and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
Born in Moscow
Moscow
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, he arrived at the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis in the 1960s, at around the same time but independently of Vladislav Illich-Svitych
Vladislav Illich-Svitych
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych was a Russian linguist and accentologist, also a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics.Of Ukrainian descent, he was born in Kiev but later moved to work in Moscow. He resuscitated the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis, originally expounded by...
. Together with Illich-Svitych, he was the first to undertake a multilateral comparison of the daughter-languages of Nostratic.
After teaching Nostratics at Moscow University for 8 years, Dolgopolsky moved to Israel in 1976, and is currently at the University of Haifa
University of Haifa
The University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.The University of Haifa was founded in 1963 by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
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Dolgopolsky is featured in the NOVA
NOVA (TV series)
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documentary, In search of the first language.