Valentin Feodosyevich Vydrin (also spelled Vydrine; ; born February 6, 1961, Belogorka,

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) is a

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Africanist. Until 2011, he was the head of the Department of Ethnography of African Peoples of the

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, Doctor of Philology. He is a Graduate of the Department of African Studies of the Faculty of Eastern Studies of the

Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

, where he was later a lecturer. He is an author of numerous scientific works, published in

, French, and

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, on the topic of

Mande languages The Mande languages are spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples and include Maninka, Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Dioula, Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are "60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million ...

, including dictionaries and treatises on grammatical features. Since 2010, he lectures in

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, as a professor of Mande languages in the

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Works

* ''Manding-English Dictionary (Maninka, Bamana)''. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Dimitry Bulanin Publishing House, 1999, 315 p. * ''Mandé language family of West Africa: Location and genetic classification''. SIL Electronic Survey Report. Dallas, SIL International. (with T.G. Bergman and Matthew Benjamin), 2000 * On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland // Вопросы языкового родства – Journal of Language Relationship 1, 2009, pp. 107–142. * И опять — части речи в бамана // Типологические обоснования в грамматике: К 70-летию проф. Храковского В. С. / Под ред. А. П. Володина. — М., 2004. * Язык бамана: Учебное пособие. — СПб.: СПбГУ, 2008. * Фонологический тип и именная морфология пра-манде. — СПб., 2001 (дисс.). * Тональные системы языков манде: Краткий обзор // Вопросы языкознания. — 2003. — № 2. * К реконструкции фонологического типа и именной морфологии пра-манде // Acta Linguistica Petropolitana — Труды Института лингвистических исследований. — СПб: Наука, 2006. — Том 2, Ч. 2. — С. 9-252. * ''Выдрин В. Ф., Томчина С. И.'' Манден-русский (манинка, бамана) словарь. — СПб: Издательство Дмитрий Буланин, 1999. — Т. 1.

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