Assim
Kokotlija Abdurahman,
Tirana
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speaks Albanian, Turkish, German, Serbo- Croatian, and French.
Issac
Alcalay, Belgrade
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speaks Yugoslav, French, English, German, Spanish, and Hebrew.
Calmi
Baruch, Sarajevo
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speaks Serbian, Spanish, French, Italian, Ladino and Hebrew.
M.
Jovan Jovanovic, Belgrade
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speaks: English, French, German, Serbian.
speaks: Spanish, Croatian, some Hungarian and Dutch and oriental
languages.
Paja
Radosavljevitch, New York City
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is very active in psychology and sociology in the Serbian, Russian,
German and English language.
Assimbeg
Mutevelic, Sarajevo
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speaks: Serbian, Croat., German and Turkish.
Hélène
Vacaresco, Paris
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She speaks 6 languages and can also lecture in English.
Ladislas
Ecséry de Nagyecser, Budapest
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went to practice in the great West European capitals to perfect
himself in the German, English and French language.
Christos
Christovassilis, Janina
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is a partisan of the vulgarian language (Dimotiki).
Demetriadis
(literary name Wr. Demetre P.) Golfis Rigas, Athens
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was one of the first partisans for the predomination of the popular
language and he vigorously fought for spreading that language all
over the intellectual classes against those who had the idea to
return to the language of the ancient Greeks.
Frantisek
Jarnos, Prague
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is the Editor in Chief of the periodical: "Nase uredni cestina" (Our
official Czech language) and a periodical for the improvement,
purification and justification of official Czech language
(1922-1932). In 1911 he was a collaborator to the
German-Czecheslovakian Railway-Dictionary.
Frantisek
Autrata, Brno
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is the author of "Introduction to the Old Bohemian Grammar" and of a
German-Czech dictionary.
Jean-Aurèle
Candrea, Bucharest
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wrote the great encyclopaedic dictionary of the Rumanian language,
Bucharest, 1931.
Bedrich
Hrozny, Prague ->
participated to the excavations of Professor Sellin at Tell Taaanek
at Palestine. From 1914 to 1917 he was deciphering the hethitic
language and proving that this language is an Indo-European one. From
1924 to 1925 he participated in excavations in Syria and in Turkey at
Kultep where cuneiform writing architecture of Cappadocian merchants
of the year 2.000 before Christ were found. From 1932-1934 he
participated in the deciphering of the "hittite" hieroglyphic
language and he published the first grammar and he proved that this
is also an Indo-European language, which differs from a
cuneiform-hittite language.
Arttur
Kannisto, Helsingfors
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made linguistic and ethnographical study trips to the Wogulen and
Ostjaken in Siberia, 1901-1906. He is a Professor of Finnish Ugrian
linguistics at the University of Helsingfors and is Secretary of the
Finnish Ugrian Society in Helsingfors since 1919.
Julius
Mägiste, Tartu
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For several years he collected material on the nominal derivation of
West-Finnish languages, on which he intends to work in detail.
Josef
Páta, Prague
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studied Slavonic languages and personally acquainted himself with all
Slavic countries and languages.
Wilhelm
Pröhle, Budapest
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is a professor of East Asiatic languages and literature (Bashkirian,
Karatshadjan and Balkarian Folklore) and has written essays on the
Turkish language and literature and on the origin of the Japanese
language.
Bedrich
(Friedrich) Riha, Prague
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is a Defender of the idea of absolute equality of the Czech and
German languages before the Court.