Juha Janhunen
Finnish linguist, professor in East Asian Studies, Univ of Helsinki
About Juha Janhunen
Born 1952. Juha Janhunen is a Finnish anthropologist, linguist, university teacher and scientist.
Juha Antero Janhunen (born 12 February 1952) 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. Janhunen has also worked along with Ekaterina Gruzdeva on revitalizing the Nivkh language.
He is a critic of the Altaic hypothesis.
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Who is Juha Janhunen?
Finnish linguist, professor in East Asian Studies, Univ of Helsinki
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Juha Janhunen was born on 12 February 1952 in Pori.
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Juha Janhunen is an anthropologist, linguist, university teacher and scientist.
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Juha Janhunen is Finnish.
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