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Aharon Dolgopolsky, also spelled Aron (, ; 18 November 1930 – 20 July 2012WEB,weblink Долгопольский Ахарон. Электронная еврейская энциклопедия, Eleven.co.il, 2006-07-04, 2012-08-27, ) was a Russian-Israeli linguist who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.NEWS,weblink At the cutting edge, Renfrew, Colin, 29 May 1998, Times Higher Education, 21 February 2011, NEWS,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20130124154342weblink">weblink dead, 24 January 2013, the secret code of 'proto-World', Selvin, Paul, 26 August 1990, The Day, G7, G8, 21 February 2011,

Biography

Born in Moscow, he arrived at the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis in the 1960s, at around the same time but independently of Vladislav Illich-Svitych. Together with Illich-Svitych, he was the first to undertake a multilateral comparison of the supposed daughter languages of Nostratic. Teaching Nostratics at Moscow University for 8 years, Dolgopolsky moved to Israel in 1976, and taught at the University of Haifa.Dolgopolsky was featured in the NOVA documentary, (List of NOVA episodes#Season 22: 1994–1995|In search of the first language).He died on 20 July 2012 in Haifa.

See also

• Dolgopolsky list
• Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics

References

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External links

• Aharon Dolgopolsky's Nostratic Dictionary
• Aharon Dolgopolsky - Nostratic Research

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