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Вячеслав Иванов | |
Born | Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov 21 August 1929 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 7 October 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States | (aged 88)
Nationality | Russian |
Citizenship | Soviet Union (1929–1991) → Russian (1991–2017) |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
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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.