Nikolai Marr
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title:
Nikolai Marr
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking on his "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language, now considered as pseudo-scientific, and related speculative linguistic hypotheses. Marr's hypotheses were used as a rationale in the campaign during the 1920–30s in the Soviet Union of introduction of Latin alphabets for smaller ethnicities of the country. In 1950, the "Japhetic theory" fell
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Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1865–1934)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Marr
date created:
2005-01-18T23:15:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T09:14:40Z
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