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András Róna-Tas (December 30, 1931- ) is a Hungarian
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
 historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
 and linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
. He was born in 1931 in Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
. Róna-Tas studied under such preeminent professors as Gyula Ortutay, István Tálasi, Gyula Németh
Gyula Németh

Gyula N?meth is a retired Hungary high jumper.He finished fourteenth at the 1983 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, and eighth at the 1988 European Indoor Championships in Athletics....
 and Lajos Ligeti and received a degree in folklore and eastern linguistics (Tibetan
Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan....
, Mongol
Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the best-known member of the Mongolic languages. It is the language of most residents of Mongolia and of many of the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, totalling about 5.7 million speakers....
, and Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
.)

In 1957 and 1958 he conducted anthropological fieldwork in Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
, studying the culture, language, and folklore of the nomad
Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ic tribes in that country.






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András Róna-Tas (December 30, 1931- ) is a Hungarian
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
 historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
 and linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
. He was born in 1931 in Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
. Róna-Tas studied under such preeminent professors as Gyula Ortutay, István Tálasi, Gyula Németh
Gyula Németh

Gyula N?meth is a retired Hungary high jumper.He finished fourteenth at the 1983 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, and eighth at the 1988 European Indoor Championships in Athletics....
 and Lajos Ligeti and received a degree in folklore and eastern linguistics (Tibetan
Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan....
, Mongol
Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the best-known member of the Mongolic languages. It is the language of most residents of Mongolia and of many of the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, totalling about 5.7 million speakers....
, and Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
.)

In 1957 and 1958 he conducted anthropological fieldwork in Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
, studying the culture, language, and folklore of the nomad
Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ic tribes in that country. During the mid 1960's Róna-Tas focused his fieldwork on the Chuvash people
Chuvash people

The Chuvash are a Turkic languages-speaking people. According to the Russian census of 2002, the Chuvash population in Russia numbered 1 637 200; 889 268 of these lived in Chuvashia....
 of the middle Volga River
Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, Discharge , and Drainage basin. It flows through the western part of Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia....
 basin. In 1971 he earned a doctorate with his thesis "The Theory of Linguistic Affinity and the Linguistic Relations between the Chuvash
Chuvash language

Chuvash ) is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Republic of Chuvashia and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....
 and Mongol
Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the best-known member of the Mongolic languages. It is the language of most residents of Mongolia and of many of the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, totalling about 5.7 million speakers....
 Languages", published as Linguistic Affinity in 1978.

From 1968 to 2002 Róna-Tas was professor of Altaic Studies and Early Hungarian History at József Attila University in Szeged
Szeged

Szeged , , is the fourth largest city of Hungary, the regional centre of South-Eastern Hungary and the county seat of the county of Csongr?d ....
, where he is now a professor emeritus. He has published over three hundred books, papers, monographs and reviews. His magnum opus
Magnum opus

Magnum opus , from the Latin meaning great work, refers to the largest, and perhaps the best, greatest, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer....
, The Landtaking Hungarians, was published in 1996 and an extended translated version appeared in English in 1999.

In addition to his work on the early Magyars, Róna-Tas has published numerous works on other Eurasian
Eurasian

Eurasian, also Euroasian or Euro-Asian can mean:...
 societies such as the Tibetans
Tibetan people

group = Tibetans|image = File:Bundesarchiv Bild 135-BB-046-03, Tibetexpedition, Tibeter.jpg|caption =|population = between 5 and 10 million...
, Kipchaks
Kipchaks

Kipchaks were an ancient Turkic people who originally formed part of the group of Kimek in Siberia along the middle reaches of Irtysh or along the Ob....
, Khazars
Khazars

The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who dominated the Pontic steppe and the North Caucasus from the 7th to the 10th century CE. The name 'Khazar' seems to be tied to a Turkic languages verb form meaning "wandering"....
, Oghuz Turks
Oghuz Turks

The Oghuz were a group of loosely linked nomadic Turkic peoples. In the ninth century the Oghuz Turks from the Aral steppes drove the Pechenegs of the Emba region and the Ural River toward the west....
 and Alans
Alans

The Alans or Alani were a group among the Sarmatians people, Eurasian nomads of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language which derived from Scytho-Sarmatian language and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian language....
. He was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Prize in 1996.

Selected bibliography

  • "Turkic-Alanian-Hungarian contacts." (2005) (Journal Article in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae)
  • "Khitan
    Khitan

    The history of the Khitans dates back to the 4th century. The Khitan people dominated much of Mongolia, and modern Manchuria by the 10th century under the Liao Dynasty, and eventually collapsed by 1125 ....
     word for 'marmot
    Marmot

    Marmots are members of the genus Marmota, in the rodent family Sciuridae .Marmots are generally large ground squirrels. Those most often referred to as marmots tend to live in mountainous areas such as the Alps, northern Apennines, Carpathian_Mountains, Tatra_Mountains, and Pyrenees in Europe, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada...
    '." (2004) (Journal Article in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae)
  • "New publications on Uyghur
    Uyghur

    Uyghur may refer to:* Uyghur people* Uyghur Empire* Uyghur language* Uyghur alphabet...
     texts translated from Chinese
    Chinese language

    Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
    ." (2003) (Journal Article in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae)
  • "Old Turkic
    Turkic languages

    The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
     Loan Words
    Loanword

    A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the Meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself....
     in Hungarian: Overview and Samples." (2002) (Journal Article in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae)
  • "Where was Khuvrat
    Kubrat

    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by defeating the Eurasian Avars and uniting all the Bulgars under one rule....
    's Bulgharia?" (2000) (Journal Article in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae)
  • "Chuvash and historical morphology." (1999) (Journal Article in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae)
  • The Hungarian Quarterly, Volume XXXVII No. 144 Winter 1996