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Russian-American linguist (1961–2022)
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Vovin.
Alexander Vladimirovich Vovin
Александр Владимирович Вовин
Born
(1961-01-27)27 January 1961
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day St. Petersburg, Russia)
Died
8 April 2022(2022-04-08) (aged 61)
Paris, France
Spouse
Sambi Ishisaki-Vovin
(m. 2000)
Children
3
Academic background
Alma mater
Saint Petersburg State University
Thesis
(1987)
Academic work
Institutions
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Miami University, University of Michigan
Doctoral students
Marc Miyake
Alexander (Sasha) Vladimirovich Vovin (Russian: Александр Владимирович Вовин; 27 January 1961 – 8 April 2022) was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist, and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. He was a world-renowned linguist, well known for his research on East Asian languages.
Alexander (Sasha) Vladimirovich Vovin (Russian: Александр Владимирович Вовин; 27 January 1961 – 8 April 2022) was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist...
Korean but is distinct enough to be considered a separate language. AlexanderVovin suggested that the Yukjin dialect of the far northeast should be similarly...
Vovin may refer to: AlexanderVovin, American Professor of East Asian Languages Vovin (album), 1998 album by Therion In the Enochian language, a dragon...
result of the fall of the Xiongnu confederation, which, according to AlexanderVovin, is likely to have had a Yeniseian-speaking compoment among its ruling...
2004 and 2005, and by AlexanderVovin in 2005. Other defenses of the theory, in response to the criticisms of Georg and Vovin, were published by Starostin...
from various regions of Asia, including Southeast Asia According to AlexanderVovin, the Yayoi were present on the central and southern parts of the Korea...
features with the ancient Xiongnu and Jie languages, and according to AlexanderVovin, Edward Vajda, and Étienne de la Vaissière, is closely related to them...
recognized by Hölzl (2018), namely Ewenic, Udegheic, Nanaic, and Jurchenic. AlexanderVovin notes that Manchu and Jurchen are aberrant languages within South Tungusic...
(麻立干; Maripgan) and 거서간 / 거슬한 (居西干 / 居瑟邯; Geoseogan / Geoseulhan). AlexanderVovin suggests this word is related to the Mongolian Khan and Manchurian...
are not glossed, but many of them can be explained as Japonic words. AlexanderVovin proposes Japonic etymologies for two of four Baekje words given in...
identify Sillan as Old Korean "in the truest sense". Nam Pung-hyun and AlexanderVovin, on the other hand, classify the languages of all three kingdoms as...
and Japanese, for less accepted alternatives. Other critics, like AlexanderVovin and Toh Soo Hee, argued that the connections between Japanese and Goguryeo...
classified as Siberian Turkic, but are rather part of the Kipchak subgroup. AlexanderVovin (2017) notes that Tofa and other Siberian Turkic languages, especially...
unusually conservative, preserving many Middle Korean forms. Thus, AlexanderVovin classified it as a distinct language. Yukjin speakers currently live...
include the extinct Khitan, Tuyuhun, and possibly also Tuoba languages. AlexanderVovin (2007) identifies the extinct Tabγač or Tuoba language as a Mongolic...
would give a total of 242 short poems and one long poem according to AlexanderVovin (2014). This variety is geographically opposed to Western Old Japanese...
transcription of pre-Old Japanese yamatai, Miyake (2003:41) cites AlexanderVovin that Late Old Chinese ʑ(h)a maaʳq dhəə 邪馬臺 represents a pre-Old Japanese...
language, is first attested in the Book of Song, compiled around 488 AD. AlexanderVovin (2015) identifies the extinct Tuyuhun language as a Para-Mongolic language...
Khitan is, indeed, best classified as a Para-Mongolic language." AlexanderVovin (2017) argues that Khitan has several Koreanic loanwords. Since both...
285. Vovin 2020, pp. 328–352. Vovin 2020, pp. 344–345. Vovin 2020, p. 344. Vovin 2020, p. 354. Vovin 2020, pp. 352–353. Vovin 2020, p. 352. Vovin 2020...
"good (Japanese: yoi) month" in published scholarly works, such as by AlexanderVovin in English as wonderful month in his 2011 commentary and translation...
on comparison alone are thus viewed as doubtful. Stefan Georg and AlexanderVovin, who, unlike many of their colleagues, do not stipulate a priori that...
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