Victor Victorovich Bayda (; born ) is a Russian linguist who specializes in

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and Germanic languages. He is currently a language-planning officer in the Iveragh Gaeltacht of

County Kerry County Kerry () is a Counties of Ireland, county on the southwest coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is bordered by two other countie ...

Biography

A native of Moscow, Bayda first became interested in languages at the age of thirteen. He was particularly interested in Celtic languages, and by the time he went to university he had learnt some Welsh and

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

. At

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

, he studied Dutch and Irish. To order to improve his Irish, he spent one term at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

. He later spent time in the Irish-speaking communities of An Spidéal and An Cheathrú Rua, and attended

Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge (; English: "The Academy of Irish language, Irish-Language University Education") is a third level educational and research institution headquartered in Galway, Ireland. It was established as part of the Unive ...

. He was a lecturer in Irish at Moscow State University for more than fifteen years, and received his doctorate from there in 2009, with a thesis entitled ' (). In 2019, he was appointed as a language-planning officer (or ) for the Iveragh Gaeltacht (or ) of

, with the responsibility to devise and implement a plan to revive the Irish language there. In this role, he has advocated that the Gaeltacht regions be given their own senior ministry within the Irish government. Bayda speaks ten languages: Russian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Icelandic, Swedish, English, Dutch, German, and French.

References

External links

Interview
on Radio Kerry (21 February 2019)
Interview
on

BBC Radio Foyle 'BBC Radio Foyle' is a BBC Northern Ireland local radio station, serving County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It is named after the River Foyle which flows through Derry, the city where the station is based. It is an Regional variation#Opt ...

(28 February 2019)
Interview
on

RTÉ Radio 1 RTÉ Radio 1 () is an Irish national radio station owned and operated by RTÉ and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926. The total budget for the station in 2010 w ...

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