# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juha-janhunen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:22.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juha-janhunen"
name: "Juha Janhunen"
slug: "juha-janhunen"
description: "Juha Antero Janhunen 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."
tagline: "Finnish linguist, professor in East Asian Studies, Univ of Helsinki"
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birthDate: "1952-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump