Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929–2017)

Born 1929 CE, died 2017 CE.

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf]; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian highlands and Lake Urmia.

Text from the Wikipedia article Vyacheslav_Ivanov_(philologist), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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