Sergei Starostin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet and Russian linguist
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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Sergei Starostin
- Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Cyrillic: ?????´? ?????´?????? ???´??????, 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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