Arndt Wigger | |
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Born | 1943 (age 80–81) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Hamburg University |
Thesis | Nominalformen im Conamara-Irischen (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Hans Hartmann |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Modern Irish Gaelic linguistics |
Institutions |
Arndt Wigger (born 1943 in Dresden, Germany)[1] is a German linguist. A specialist in Modern Irish (Nua-Ghaeilge), Wigger has published many articles on different aspects of the modern form of the language. He is a fluent speaker of the Connemara dialect. He also studies Hungarian, Portuguese and Arabic. He is closely associated with the Studienhaus für Keltische Sprachen und Kulturen - SKSK, at the University of Bonn.[2]