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...Frye has studied and taught courses on subjects from Zoroasterianism to the study of languages like Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, Kurdish and Pashto. A member of the Near Eastern Studies Center, the Linguistics Department and the History Department, not to mention the chairman of the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Affairs and a former editor of an archeological journal, Frye is involved in as many academic concerns as the numbers of languages he speaks...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Of Ancient Scrolls and Scriptures... | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

Named professor of Linguistics was Omeljan Pritsak, a Ukrainian-born expert on the Turkic and Altaic languages of the Near East and the Asian steppes...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Six Linguists Named To Strengthen Dept. | 4/7/1964 | See Source »

Finno-Ugrian, a dialect of the Ural-Altaic language, is spoken in Lapland, Estonia, and Northern Siberia. Friesian is the vernacular of the Northern Netherlands and Friesland. Hyperborean, the oral-communication of the Chukchi and Koryak Eskimo tribes of the Arctic, is also spoken in Outer Mongolia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange, Rare Collections go Into Library | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

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