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Jan Braun (1926–2015)
Polish Sumerologist · General and Comparative Linguist
Jan Nepomucen Józef Braun was a Polish scholar of Sumerian, general linguistics and comparative linguistics. In his comparative work, Braun challenged the classification of Sumerian as a language isolate and proposed a genetic relationship between Sumerian and the Tibeto-Burman languages. In its strongest form, his proposal placed Sumerian within a Tibeto-Burman linguistic family. This page preserves the work as a historically important scholarly proposal rather than presenting the classification as a settled consensus.
Collected Work
Sumerian and Tibeto-Burman
Braun's monograph presents his comparison of Sumerian with Tibeto-Burman languages. The downloadable file is a complete scan prepared from a physical copy held by the site author.
- Author
- Jan Nepomucen Józef Braun
- Publication
- Warsaw: Agade, 2001
- Extent
- 93 printed pages · 90-page PDF with cover
- ISBN
- 83-87111-18-X
Provenance
The Physical Book
Appearance of the physical book. These photographs document the site author's personal copy, from which the digital scan was produced.
