Guest guest Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 F.B.J. Kuiper, 1907-2003 Witzel and friends, The passing away of FBJ Kuiper is a great loss indeed to the world of language studies. I have not had the privilege of being his student, but it is impossible not to consider him one's own virtual Guru as one reads through his works which throw a floodlight of new perspectives on an issue. His work on Nahali following upon S. Bhattacharya's lexical work is a masterpiece, his works on Aryans in the Rigveda and Munda are of unsurpassed brilliance which will lead to new contributions to the dialectical continuum in proto-bharatiya languages. I have been deeply influenced by his approaches to analysing the Sindhu-Sarasvati language problem and in unraveling some intimations of mleccha, the code of Sarasvati hieroglyphs in my 7-volume work on Sarasvati (2003). F.B.J.Kuiper, `Aryans in the Rigveda', Leiden, 1991 Kuiper, F.B.J. 1948. Proto-Munda words in Sanskrit. Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Maatchappij; Kuiper, F.B.J. 1948. "Munda and Indonesian." Orientalia Neerlandica, Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgerverschmaatschappij. May his splendid contributions continue to inspire us into pursuing researches on the rich language heritage of Bharat. Dr. S. Kalyanaraman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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