Ruben Erik Nirvi (until 1928 Snirvi, born 16 December 1905 in

Askola Askola () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Monninkylä is the largest village of the municipality ...

- died 26 January 1986 in

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) was a Finnish

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 ...

. He was the deputy of Finnish philology at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

from 1955 to 1957 and the personal additional professor of the

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from 1957 to 1972. He was a special expert on Finnish, especially the

Ingrian dialects Ingrian dialects () are the Finnish dialects spoken by Ingrian Finns around Ingria in Russia. Today, the Ingrian dialects are still spoken in Russia, Finland and Sweden. In 2010 there were only 20 300 Ingrian Finns left in Russia. The Ingrian di ...

. He defended his thesis ''Sanankieltoja ja niihin liittyviä kielenilmiöitä itämerensuomalaisissa kielissä: Riista- ja kotieläintalous'' ("Negative words and linguistic phenomena connected to them in Baltic Finnic languages: Game and animal husbandry").Otavan Iso tietosanakirja, volume 6, s. 417. Otava 1968.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nirvi, Ruben Linguists from Finland Academic staff of the University of Helsinki 1905 births 1986 deaths