Sergey Starostin
Russian linguist and philologist (1953-2005) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 52
Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené-Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language family of still earlier date.
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None of his proposed macrofamilies have seen wide-scale acceptance in the linguistic community and are mostly seen as implausible.
