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Ruben Erik Nirvi (until 1928 Snirvi, born 16 December 1905 in
Ruben Erik Nirvi (until 1928 Snirvi, born 16 December 1905 in Askola
Askola () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Monninkylä is the largest village of municipality in ter ...
- died 26 January 1986 in Helsinki
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) was a Finnish
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linguist
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. He was the deputy of Finnish philology at the University of Helsinki
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from 1955 to 1957 and the personal additional professor of the Finnish language
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from 1957 to 1972. He was a special expert on Finnish, especially the Ingrian dialects
Ingrian dialects ( fi, Inkerin suomalaismurteet) are the Finnish dialects spoken by Ingrian Finns around Ingria in Russia. Today, the Ingrian dialects are still spoken in Russia, Finland and Sweden. In 2010 there were only 20 300 Ingrian Finns le ...
. He defended his thesis ''Sanankieltoja ja niihin liittyviä kielenilmiöitä itämerensuomalaisissa kielissä: Riista- ja kotieläintalous'' ("Negative words and linguistic phenomena connected to them in Baltic Finnic languages: Game and animal husbandry").Otavan Iso tietosanakirja, volume 6, s. 417. Otava 1968.
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