This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.

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Friday, November 16th, 2007

In Biliktu Bashi: G.J. Ramstedt’s Career as a Scholar, a biography of the comparative linguist and founder of the Altaic school, Harry Halén tells of Ramstedt’s time in Mongolia: Having obtained some Mongolian textbooks Ramstedt noticed that the language was really quite easy. He found the Russian-Mongolian phrasebook by Colonel Voloshinov (Русско-монголо-бурятский переводчикъ. 2nd ed., [...]

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