Georgi Rikov

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Georgi Todorov Rikov
Георги Тодоров Риков
Born	(1946-08-14)August 14, 1946
Died	December 28, 2002(2002-12-28) (aged 56)
Occupation(s)	Linguist, Philologist

Georgi Todorov Rikov (Bulgarian: Георги Тодоров Риков) (14 August 1946 – 28 December 2002)^[1] was a Bulgarian linguist and scientist, the editor-in-chief of Orpheus: Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies.^[2]

Rikov attended Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", graduating in 1972. From 1977 through 1992, he worked at the Institute for Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. From 1992 through 2002, he worked in the department of General, Indo-European and Balkan Languages at Sofia University.^[3]

His body of work has been divided into five sections: Indo-European linguistics, with a focus on a present nasal infix in the Heto-Luwian languages called "ultimae laryngalis"; Slavic studies with a focus on ska- etymology; Anatolian languages; Greek; and miscellanea.^[3][4]