10 Facts About Eugene Helimski

Eugene Arnoldovich Helimski was a Soviet and Russian linguist.

Eugene Helimski was a Doctor of Philology and Professor.

Eugene Helimski became one of the world's leading specialists in Samoyedic languages.

Eugene Helimski was a participant and organizer of numerous linguistic expeditions to Siberia and to the Taimyr Peninsula; field studies of all Samoyedic languages, one of the authors of the well-known Studies on the Selkup Language, which was based on field studies and has substantially broadened the linguistic understanding of Samoyedic.

Eugene Helimski exposed a number of regularities in the historical phonetics of Hungarian, and substantiated the existence of grammatical and lexical Ugro-Samoyedic parallels.

Eugene Helimski gathered all accessible data on Mator, the extinct South-Samoyedic language, and published its dictionary and grammar.

Eugene Helimski proposed a number of novel Uralic, Indo-European and Nostratic etymologies, and collected a large body of material on the borrowed lexicon of the languages of Siberia.

Eugene Helimski proposed a number of modifications to the traditional theory of the "genealogical tree" with respect to the Uralic data, which affected comparative studies in general.

Eugene Helimski worked on problematics of shamanism among the Samoyedic peoples, collected and published texts of shamanistic incantations.

Eugene Helimski initiated the development of a digital database of Uralic, which later became part of Sergei Starostin's StarLing Project.