Sorin Paliga (born Viorel-Sorin Paliga on 21 June 1956 in Braniștea,

Dâmbovița County Dâmbovița County (; also spelt Dîmbovița) is a county () of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Târgoviște, the most important economic, political, administrative and cultural center of the county. It is a traditional administra ...

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) is a Romanian linguist and politician. He is a university professor at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

. As a politician, he was the former mayor of Sector 3 of

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from June 1996 to June 2000, and was affiliated with the National Liberal Party (PNL).

Research interests

Paliga's main research interests include the influence of Dacian on Romanian, language contact, and Indo-European philology. Paliga is a proponent of 's theory, which links the

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e. ...

Uralic The Uralic languages ( ), sometimes called the Uralian languages ( ), are spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. Other languages with speakers abo ...

, and

Altaic The Altaic () languages are a group of languages comprising the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families, with some linguists including the Koreanic and Japonic families. These languages share agglutinative morphology, head-final ...

language families.Paliga, Sorin (2003)
N. D. Andreev’s Proto-Boreal Theory and Its Implications in Understanding the Central-East and Southeast European Ethnogenesis: Slavic, Baltic and Thracian
''Romanoslavica'' 38: 93–104. Papers and articles for the 13th International Congress of Slavicists, Ljubljana, August 15–21, 2003.

Life

Paliga studied Czech and English at the

. He received his doctorate in 1998 by completing his dissertation on Roman and pre-Roman influences in

South Slavic languages The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches (West Slavic la ...

.CV Viorel Sorin Paliga
- unibuc.ro Since 2001 he teaches Czech and comparative grammar of the Slavic Languages at the University of Bucharest. Married to Rodica Paliga in 1985, a teacher of Latin and French, they have 3 children.

Selected works by Sorin Paliga

Books

* Thracian and Pre-Thracian Studies (1999) * Toponimia slavă și preslavă în sud- estul european. Introducere în studiul toponimiei slave arhaice (2003) * Mitologia slavilor (2006) * Introducere în studiul comparativ al limbilor slave (2012) * Influențe romane și preromane în limbile slave de sud （2013） * Morfologia limbii cehe, partea a II- a. Sfera nominală (2014) *An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language (2024)

References

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Living people 1956 births People from Dâmbovița County Linguists from Romania Academic staff of the University of Bucharest Romanian philologists National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians University of Bucharest alumni Mayors of the sectors of Bucharest Long-range comparative linguists {{Romania-linguist-stub