Ignacio-Javier (Inyasi-Xavier) Adiego Lahara is a Catalan linguist, an expert in comparative historical linguistics, Indo-European studies and European languages of the period of antiquity.
He defended his dissertation in the University of Barcelona (1990) for the degree of Doctor of Philology “ Kariysky language ”, in which he clarified the decoding of the Carian script, proposed by J. Ray . Currently he is the head of the department of Indo-European languages at the university.
The main interests include the Anatolian languages and the languages of ancient Italy (Latin, Italic and Etruscan ). Contributed to the interpretation of the Etruscan texts and the establishment of genetic relationships within the Italic group of languages. He is a supporter of the Indo-Hittite hypothesis , for which he suggests the more cautious name of the “early separation hypothesis” (of the Anatolian languages from other Indo-European) [1] .
Another area of interest is the study of languages and dialects of Spain. Discovered and published the dictionary of the XVIII century Spanish-Gypsy language.
Works
- The Carian Language (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007)
- Protosabelio, oscoumbro, sudpiceno, Barcelona: PPU, 1992
- Un vocabulario gitano-español del Marqués de Sentmenat (1697–1762). Edición y análsis lingüístico, Barcelona: Edicions UB, 2002
- Séneca el Viejo. Controversias y Suasorias (Gredos: Madrid, 2005) fet en colôlaboració amb Esther Artigas i Alejandra de Riquer.
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Links
- http://stel.ub.edu/llati/ca/departament/ignasi-xavier-adiego-lajara page on the website of the University of Barcelona
- https://ub.academia.edu/IgnasiXavierAdiegoLajara Selected Publication List