Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin
Soviet linguist
Died when: 52 years 190 days (630 months)Star Sign: Aries
Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Russian: ?????´? ?????´?????? ???´??????;March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language of still earlier date.
He was also the author of a widely respected reconstruction of Old Chinese.
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