Vladislav Illich-Svitych
Vladislav Illich-Svitych · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Russian linguist and founder of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
1934, Kyiv, Soviet Union (Ukraine) — 1966, near Moscow, Soviet Union (Russia)
Soviet Union (Ukraine · Russia)
Vladislav Illich-Svitych is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Russian linguist and founder of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
Illich-Svitych was a Soviet linguist who revived and rigorously grounded the Nostratic hypothesis, arguing that Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Dravidian and Afroasiatic descend from a single ancestral macrofamily, and began compiling the first comparative Nostratic dictionary. He founded the Moscow school of comparative linguistics before dying in a car accident at age 31. He was of Polish Jewish descent.
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Russian linguist and founder of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
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