Bouda Karl

Karl Bouda (10 February 1901, Hamburg – 31 July 1979, Nuremberg) was a German linguist and Caucasiologist. He was a professor at the University of Erlangen (Germany) from 1952.

He published worked on the Iberian-Caucasian languages of mountainous regions (Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Ubykh, Avar, Tabasaran, Lak, Khinalug, Udi). He published Avar texts (1932). Notably, Bouda attempted to establish a connection between the Iberian-Caucasian languages and Basque, Chinese, Tibetan, and Finno-Ugric languages based on lexical material (whether genetic or structural-typological). In his comparative studies, he extensively used materials from both the Iberian-Caucasian languages and the Kartvelian languages.

Literary works: Beiträge zur Kaukasischen und sibirischen Sprachwissenschaft, [Bd.] 3, Lpz., 1939 (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, XXIV, 1); Baskisch und Kaukasisch, «Zeitschrift für Phonetik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft», 1948, H. 3–6; Baskisch-kaukasische Etymologien, Hdlb., 1949.

Literature: გ უ დ ა ვ ა  ტ., [რეც.]: B o u d a  K., Introducción a la linguistica Caucásica («Acta Salmanticensia. Filosofia y Letras», 1960, t. 15, № 1), «იბერიულ-კავკასიური ენათმეცნიერება», 1966, ტ. 15.

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