Somfai Kara David (born 21 April 1969, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian academic of

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and

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currently working in the

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. He holds a

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degree, and his academic discipline focuses on the cultures and languages of the Central Asian people such as Turkic and Mongolic people. Apart from Central Asian Turkic ( Kyrgyz, Kazakh etc.) and Mongolian languages, he has a knowledge of English and

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languages. He also researched on and published several works regarding the folklore, tradition, mythology, and religion of those people.

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appearance on Hungarian TV * https://www.azattyk.org/a/david-kara-somfai_and_istvan-mandoki-kongur_18-5-2017_kyrgyz/28497049.html?nocache=1 Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Culture of Central Asia Hungarian ethnographers 1969 births Living people Linguists of Turkic languages Writers from Budapest Mongolists {{hungary-linguist-stub