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unusual facts about Asian languages



Frederick Paul Keppel

Before the Association of American Colleges and Universities, in 1930, he insisted upon the importance to the United States of knowledge of Asian culture, and upon the necessity of including Asian languages in American curricula.

Joseph Halévy

While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later in Bucharest, he devoted his leisure to the study of Oriental languages and archeology, in which he became proficient.


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Bernard Arps

He also served as Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2001-02, a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University during the first half of 2005, and the Netherlands Visiting Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan in 2006-07.

Colin Masica

At the University of Chicago, he taught Hindi at all levels, and occasionally other South Asian languages, along with North Indian cultural history and literature, for three decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages.

Gandhara

Semitic scripts were not used to write South Asian languages again until the arrival of Islam and subsequent adoption of the Persian-style Arabic alphabet for New Indo-Aryan languages like Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Kashmiri.

Ghain

Ghayn, the corresponding letter in the Cyrillic orthographies for several Central Asian languages

Irevna

#Hangzhou,China: The China research centre started in 2011 and caters to clients requiring research support in East Asian languages.

J. A. B. van Buitenen

Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen (21 May 1928 - 21 September 1979) was an Indologist at the University of Chicago where he was the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Parade College

Professor Gavan McCormack, LLB (Melb), PhD (London), world authority, Asian languages and affairs

Punjabi Qisse

It has influenced almost all the languages of South Asia and occurs as a regular common noun in north-western South Asian languages like Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi.

Rutgers University Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures

Charles Häberl, Associate Professor, Chair of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages and Literatures

Timothy Light

A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Light is a scholar in East Asian languages and literature.

TRT Avaz

The channel's name was announced by President Abdullah Gül as "AVAZ", a word that means "voice" in many Central Asian languages.

William Bright

Bright was also known for his research on the native American languages Nahuatl, Kaqchikel, Luiseño, Ute, Wishram, and Yurok, and the South Asian languages Lushai, Kannada, Tamil, and Tulu.

Zeitlin

Judith T. Zeitlin, American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago