Alexander vovin is a professor of eastern languages and linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Linguistics is the scientific study of language. ... The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the main campus of the greater University of Hawaiʻi system. ...

Publications

• Vovin, Alexander (1993). A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-09905-0. 
• Vovin, Alexander (2000). "Did the Xiongnu speak a Yeniseian language?". Central Asiatic Journal 44 (1).
• Vovin, Alexander (2003). 日本語系統論の現在 (Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language). Kyoto: International Center for Japanese Studies. ISSN 1346-6585. 
• Vovin, Alexander (2003). A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1716-1. 

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External links

• http://linguistlist.org/people/personal/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=12584
• http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/ppl/indiv/Jap/VovinAlexander.htm