Emil Petrovici (; 1899–1968) was a

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linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their assoc ...

and

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. He studied both

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and

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s. His studies included Romanian

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

, and Romanian, Serbian, and other Slavic

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ology. Petrovici, of Serb descent, was born in the village of Torak (former ''Begejci''), at the time part of

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, now in northern

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

. From 1949 to 1954, Petrovici worked on literary and cultural problems of

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and collaborated on several journals published in

Cluj ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Status , subdivision_name2 = County seat , settlement_type = City , le ...

. He was honored with membership in several scientific academies and societies, and was honored with various titles such as ''"Om de știință emerit"'' ("Emeritus scientist") and ''"Premiul de stat"'' ("The State Prize"). He died in the Bucerdea train collision in 1968.

Works

Among his many books were: *''Despre nazalitate în limba română'' (''On

nasalization In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is . In the Internationa ...

in the Romanian language'') *''Graiul carașovenilor'' (''Language of

Krashovani The Krashovani ( ro, Carașoveni, hr, Krašovani) are a Croat community inhabiting Carașova and Lupac in the Caraș-Severin County within Romanian Banat. They are Catholic by faith and speak the Torlakian dialect. Glottolog lists "Karashevski" ...

'') *''Folclor din Valea Almajului'' (''Folklore from the Almajului Valley'', 1935) *''Folclor de la moții din Scărișoara'' (''Folklore of the Moţii of Scărişoara'', 1939) *''Note de folclor de la românii din Valea Mlavei'' (''Notes on the folklore of the Romanians of the

Mlava The Mlava (Serbian Cyrillic: Млава) is a river in Serbia, 158 km long right tributary of the Danube. Origin Mlava originates as the ''Tisnica'', from the Kučaj mountains in eastern Serbia, under the ''Veliki Krš'' peak. It flows to ...

Valley'', 1942) * ''Texte dialectale'' (''Dialect Texts'',

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, 1943) * Co-author of ''Atlasul lingvistic român'' (''Romanian Linguistic Atlas'')

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Petrovici, Emil 1899 births 1968 deaths 20th-century Serbian people 20th-century Romanian people Rectors of Babeș-Bolyai University Serbian people of Romanian descent Romanian people of Serbian descent Romanians of Vojvodina Linguists from Romania Linguists from Serbia Slavists Austro-Hungarian Serbs People from the Kingdom of Hungary People from Žitište 20th-century linguists