Georgy Klimov
Georgy Klimov (Russian: Гео́ргий Андре́евич Кли́мов, Georgiy Andreyevich Klimov) (September 23, 1928 – April 29, 1997) was a Russian linguist and a leading specialist of the Caucasian languages. His interest primarily focused on the Kartvelian linguistics but also encompassed the Burushaski language and the Amerind language group.
Biography[]
Born in Leningrad, Klimov graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1952. From 1954 onward, he worked for the Institute of Linguistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, becoming a professor there in 1988. He died in Moscow in 1997, leaving behind over 360 scholarly works and many projects uncompleted. One of them, Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages, a result of Klimov's lifetime research, was published in 1998 and remains the best work in the comparative linguistics of Kartvelian languages.[1]
References[]
- ^ Georgij Andreevich Klimov. Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Mouton deGruyter, 1998) reviewed for Anthropological Linguistics vol 42 #4 (2000) by Kevin Tuite, Université de Montréal.
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