Dené–Yeniseian languages, languages of northern Eurasia
Edward J. Vajda (Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, September 10, 1958 as Edward M. Johnson; changed his name in 1981)[1] is a historical linguist at Western Washington University, Washington.
He is 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. He began to study the Ket language in the 1990s, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union; he interviewed Ket speakers in Germany and later traveled to Tomsk in southwestern Siberia to perform fieldwork. In August 2008 he became the first North American to visit the Ket homeland in north-central Siberia's Turukhansky District, where he conducted intensive fieldwork with some of the remaining Ket speakers. Vajda's 67-page article "A Siberian link with Na-Dene languages" was published in 2010 in the Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska. His theory has earned widespread, but not universal, support among professional linguists.[2]
^Entry on Edward Vajda in Encyclopedia.com
^Bill Poser. "The languages of the Caucasus". Language Log, 25 August 2008. Accessed 22 July 2017.
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display affinity to Inner Northeast Asian (Yumin-like) groups. In Siberia, EdwardVajda observed that Yeniseian hydronyms in the circumpolar region (the recent...
southern Kott and Assan, and the central Arin and Pumpokol languages. EdwardVajda has proposed that, based on hydronymic analysis, the distribution of...
ancient Xiongnu and Jie languages, and according to Alexander Vovin, EdwardVajda, and Étienne de la Vaissière, is closely related to them. The name Pumpokol...
tonal language is debatable, although recent works by Ket specialists EdwardVajda and Stefan Georg defend the existence of tone. In tonal descriptions...
ISBN 978-9004123076. Vajda, E. J. "Manchu (Jurchen)". Pandora Web Space (Western Washington University). Professor EdwardVajda. Archived from the original...
Vajda, Edward (2010). The Classic Russian Fairy Tale: More Than a Bedtime Story (Speech). The World's Classics. Western Washington University. Vajda,...
February 2008 included papers on the Yeniseian and Na-Dené families. EdwardVajda of Western Washington University summarized ten years of research, based...
or Iranian origins. Western Washington University historical linguist EdwardVajda spent a year in Siberia studying the Ket people and their language and...
1923, and developed further by others. A detailed study was done by EdwardVajda and published in 2010. This theory received support from many linguists...
English Richard Purtill, Philosophy (emeritus) Ada Swineford, Geologist EdwardVajda, Modern & Classical Languages Christopher Wise, English Robert Angel...
wider Dené–Caucasian grouping, also including Sino-Tibetan. During 2008 EdwardVajda related Yeniseian to the Na-Dené languages of North America as a Dené–Yeniseian...
Peiros. Other project members include Vaclav Blazek, John D. Bengtson, EdwardVajda, and other linguists. The Evolution of Human Languages (EHL) is an international...
Na-Dené and Yeniseian Alfredo Trombetti (initiator), Merritt Ruhlen, EdwardVajda, Michael Krauss, Jeff Leer, James Kari, Heinrich Werner, Bernard Comrie...
CSLI/University of Chicago Press. 2010. Ives, John W., Sally Rice, and EdwardVajda. "Dene-Yeniseian and processes of deep change in kin terminologies."...
his critics, a few linguists have begun to argue for its resolution. EdwardVajda, noted for his recent proposal of Dené–Yeniseian, attempts to stake out...
speakers of Yugh. Vajda, Edward J. (2004). Ket. Languages of the world Materials. München: LINCOM Europa. ISBN 978-3-89586-221-2. Vajda, Edward J. "The Ket...
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Pronk-Tiethoff 2013, p. 58. Kim 2013, p. 30. Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 390–391. Vajda, Edward J. (2013). Yeniseian Peoples and Languages: A History of Yeniseian Studies...
Syalakh stone tools Pavel Flegontov, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Piya Changmai, Edward J. Vajda, Johannes Krause, Stephan Schiffels (2016), Na-Dene populations descend...
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