Aharon Dolgopolsky (Hebrew: אהרון דולגופולסקי, Russian: Арон Борисович Долгопольский; born 1930) is a Russian-born Israeli comparative linguist and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.[1][2]
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.
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