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4 unusual facts about Edward Vajda


Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska

Several key papers in Alaskan anthropology have appeared in the journal, including Edward Vajda's 2010 paper on the Dene–Yeniseian hypothesis.

Borean languages

Dené–Caucasian (speculative, Nikolayev 1991; expanded by Bengtson 1997), c.f. Dené–Yeniseian (Edward Vajda 2008)

Edward Vajda

In August 2008 he became the first North American to visit the Ket homeland in north-central Siberia's Turukhansky District, where he conducted intensive fieldwork with some of the remaining Ket speakers.

He has become known for his work on the proposed Dené–Yeniseian language family, seeking to establish that the Ket language of Siberia has a common linguistic ancestor with the Na-Dené languages of North America.



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