Juha Janhunen, Date of Birth
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Finnish linguist, professor in East Asian Studies, Univ of Helsinki
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About Juha Janhunen
- Juha Janhunen (born 12 February 1952 in Pori) is a Finnish linguist whose wide interests include Uralic and Mongolic languages.
- Since 1994 he has been Professor in East Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki.
- He has done fieldwork on Samoyedic languages and on Khamnigan Mongol.
- More recently he has collaborated with Chinese scholar Wu Yingzhe to produce a critical edition of two newly discovered Liao Dynasty epitaphs written in the Khitan small script. He is a critic of the Altaic hypothesis.
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