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Edkhyam Tenishev

Native name: Әдһәм Рәхим улы Тенишев

Also known as: Edkhyam Rakhimovich Tenishev, Tenishev Adham Rahimovich, Edhyam Tenishev

Place of birth:

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Birth date:

1921-04-25 • Birth Sign: Taurus

Citizenship:

Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union, Russia

Death date:

2004-07-11 (83 years old)

Short Bio:

Edkhyam Rakhimovich Tenishev (; ; April 25, 1921 – July 11, 2004) was a Soviet and Russian linguist who specialized in Turkic and Mongolic languages. He was a doctor of philology, a professor, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He served as the head of the Department of Uralic and Altaic languages at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He was editor-in-chief of the journal Советская тюркология (Soviet Turcology) and of the multi-volume publication Сравнительно-историческая грамматика тюркских языков (Comparative-historical grammar of the Turkic languages).

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linguist Turkologist mongolist researcher teacher philologist Penza Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Russia