Mehmet Muslimov ( rus, Мехмед Закирович Муслимов, born August 14, 1964) is a Russian
linguist, and an expert in
Finno-Ugric languages. He is a member of ''Strana Yazykov'', a nationwide network of
language activists.
Biography
Mehmet Muslimov was born in
Saint Petersburg. He received a
Master of Arts in
ethnology from the
European University at Saint Petersburg and a
Candidate of Sciences degree from the
Institute for Linguistic Studies of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, where he has been working ever since. His thesis was dedicated to
language contact
Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. When speakers of different languages interact closely, it is typical for th ...
in Western
Ingria and written under the academic supervision of
Evgeny Golovko Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include:
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. Muslimov teaches the endangered
Votic
Votic, or Votian (''vaďďa tšeeli'', ''maatšeeli'') �vɑːdʔda ˈtʃɨlɨ, mɑːt.ʃɨlɨ is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye and Luzhit ...
and
Ingrian languages at a local cultural centre in Saint Petersburg.
Selected publications
* Muslimov, Mehmet. 2009. K klassifikacii finskih dialektov Ingermanlandii. In ''Voprosy uralistiki'': 179–204. Saint Petersburg: Nauka.
* Muslimov, Mehmet. 2012. "Narodnaya dialektologija" v nižnelužskom areale. ''Acta Linguistica Petropolitana'' 8(1): 135–193.
References
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Living people
Linguists from Russia
1964 births
Language activists
Writers from Saint Petersburg