Festlig Faglig Fredag with Rasmus Bjørn: Indo-European goes East: Early loanwords in Turkic, Uralic, and Old Chinese

Map of Central Asia with the distribution of cultural groups and languages highlighted — Map of the distribution of the cultural groups of central Asia in the millenia before Christ.

The next and maybe last Festlig Faglig Fredag of the semester will be hosted by Rasmus Gudmundsen Bjørn.

Rasmus holds an MA in Indo-European Linguistics from the University of Copenhagen and was awarded the gold medal for his prize dissertation on early Indo-European contact and loan word vocabulary. He is currently a PhD student at the Max-Planck-Institut für Menschengeschichte in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.

The talk has the title:

Indo-European goes East: Early loanwords in Turkic, Uralic, and Old Chinese

Everyone is welcome! We will meet at 16:00 in "Rasmus Rask", and the talk will begin at 16:15.

COVID-INFO

It will be possible to attend the talk in person as well as online.

Physically, we'll meet in Raskus Rask/Ludvig Holberg (22.2.56-58). You must be able to show a valid Corona Passport when entering university buildings (info on KUnet)
Virtually, you can join this zoom meeting (sign in with your own name, please): https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/63733684888?pwd=RGExNnYwcmdHMUhlT2ZnTXRpMzRIUT09

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Festlig Faglig Fredag with Rasmus Bjørn: Indo-European goes East: Early loanwords in Turkic, Uralic, and Old Chinese

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