Aharon Dolgopolsky, also spelled Aron (, ; 18 November 1930 – 20 July 2012) was a Russian-Israeli

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative

Nostratic Nostratic is a hypothetical language macrofamily including many of the language families of northern Eurasia first proposed in 1903. Though a historically important proposal, it is now generally considered a fringe theory. Its exact compositi ...

linguistics.

Biography

Born in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

, he arrived at the long-forgotten

hypothesis in the 1960s, at around the same time but independently of

Vladislav Illich-Svitych Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (, also transliterated as Illič-Svityč; 12 September 1934 – 22 August 1966) was a Soviet linguist and accentologist. He was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics and the Moscow School o ...

. 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

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. Dolgopolsky was featured in the NOVA documentary, ''In search of the first language''. He died on 20 July 2012 in

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External links

Aharon Dolgopolsky's Nostratic Dictionary

Aharon Dolgopolsky - Nostratic Research
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Biography

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