Juha Janhunen

Juha Janhunen
Born	Juha Antero Janhunen (1952-02-12) 12 February 1952 (age 73) Pori, Finland
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Institutions	University of Helsinki
Main interests	Mongolic languages

Juha Antero Janhunen (born 12 February 1952) ^[1] 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. ^[2] 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.^{[ citation needed ]} Janhunen has also worked along with Ekaterina Gruzdeva on revitalizing the Nivkh language. ^[3]

He is a critic of the Altaic hypothesis. ^[4]

Notable works

• Janhunen, Juha (1977). Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien[Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies]. Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society, University of Helsinki. ISBN   951-45-1161-1.
• Janhunen, Juha, ed. (2003). The Mongolic languages. London: Routledge.
• Janhunen, Juha, ed. (2005). Khamnigan Mongol. Munich: Lincom Europa.
• Yingzhe, Wu; Janhunen, Juha (2010). New Materials on the Khitan Small Script: A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelü Xiangwen. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental.
• Janhunen, Juha (2012). Mongolian. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

References

1. "Janhunen, Juha, 1952–". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023.
2. Hyytiäinen, Tiina; Jalava, Lotta; Saarikivi, Janne; et al., eds. (2012). "Bibliography of the Publications of Juha Janhunen" (PDF). Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia. 264. ISBN   978-952-5667-34-9.
3. "REVITALIZING NIVKH (SAKHALIN, RUSSIA): Project on revitalization of the Nivkh language on Sakhalin". Helsinki.fi. University of Helsinki. 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
4. Janhunen, Juha (1996). "Prolegomena to a comparative analysis of Mongolic and Tungusic". In Stary, Giovanni (ed.). Proceedings of the 38th Permanent International Altaistic Conference. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 209–218.

External links

• Janhunen and Altaic studies profiled