Sorin Paliga (born Viorel-Sorin Paliga on June 21, 1956 in Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania) is a Romanian linguist and politician. He is a university professor at the University of Bucharest. As a politician, he was the former mayor of Sector 3 of Bucharest from June 1996 to June 2000, and was affiliated with the National Liberal Party (PNL).[1][2]
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Born | Viorel-Sorin Paliga (1956-06-21) June 21, 1956 (age 66) Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania |
Nationality | Romanian |
Occupation | Linguist and politician |
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Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
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Institutions | University of Bucharest |
Main interests | Eastern Romance languages, South Slavic languages, pre-Indo-European languages |
Paliga's main research interests include the influence of Dacian on Romanian, language contact, and Indo-European philology.
Paliga is a proponent of N. D. Andreev [ru]'s Boreal languages [ru] theory, which links the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic language families.[3][4]
Paliga studied Czech and English at the University of Bucharest. He received his doctorate in 1998 by completing his dissertation on Roman and pre-Roman influences in South Slavic languages.[5]
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