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 as well as the language isolate in Pakistan, Burushaski (which has lost status in the proposed family according to some linguists). 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]
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 2008-03-21
External links
- Vajda's homepage at Western Washington University
- Video of Vajda introducing the Ket language
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