Janhunen, Juha, 1952-

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Name (Latin)
Janhunen, Juha, 1952-
Other forms of name
Janhunen, Juha A., 1952-
Janhunen, Juha Antero, 1952-
Date of birth
1952-02-12
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 34594089
Wikidata: Q2493941
Library of congress: n 78058675
Sources of Information
  • Fi 78(Juha Janhunen b. 1952)
  • Mongolian, 2012(Juha A. Janhunen)
  • Samojedischer Wortschatz, 1977:t.p. (Juha Janhunen)
  • The Tungusic languages, 2023:CIP t.p. (Juha Janhunen) galley (Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • The mongolic languages, 2003:CIP t.p. (Juha Janhunan) CIP data sheet (b. Feb. 12, 1952)
  • Tumen jalafun jecen aku, 2006:t.p. (Juha Antero Janhunen)
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Wikipedia description:

Juha Antero Janhunen (born 12 February 1952) is a Finnish linguist whose wide interests include Uralic and Mongolic languages. Since 1994, he has been Professor in East Asian studies at the University of Helsinki. He has done fieldwork on Samoyedic languages and on Khamnigan Mongol. More recently, he has collaborated with Chinese scholar Wu Yingzhe to produce a critical edition of two newly discovered Liao dynasty epitaphs written in the Khitan small script. Janhunen has also worked along with Ekaterina Gruzdeva on revitalizing the Nivkh language. He is a critic of the Altaic hypothesis.

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