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Vasily Abaev

1900 - 2001

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Vasily (Vaso) Ivanovich Abaev, also Abayev or Abayti (Russian: Василий Иванович Абаев, Ossetian: Абайты Иваны фырт Васо; 15 December 1900 – 18 March 2001) was a Soviet Ossetian linguist specializing in Iranian, particularly Ossetian linguistics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Abaev has received more than 53,456 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Abaev is the 130th most popular linguist (down from 128th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 159th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Georgian Linguist.

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  • 53k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vasily Abaev ranks 130 out of 214. Before him are Arie de Jong, Aleksander Brückner, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Yevgeny Polivanov, and Gaston Waringhien. After him are Jan de Vries, Walther von Wartburg, James Legge, Julius Pokorny, Felix Jacoby, and Hermann Osthoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Vasily Abaev ranks 189. Before him are Adlai Stevenson II, Maurice Dobb, Edward Stettinius Jr., Karel Teige, Charley Paddock, and Teodoro Picado Michalski. After him are Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Erna Berger, George Calnan, Ivan Maslennikov, Itzik Feffer, and Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen. Among people deceased in 2001, Vasily Abaev ranks 193. Before him are Maria Gorokhovskaya, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Franco Rasetti, Betty Holberton, Édouard Artigas, and Anne Haney. After him are Arturo Uslar Pietri, John C. Lilly, Nam Sung-yong, Robert W. Floyd, Mordecai Richler, and Alberto Gallardo.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Vasily Abaev ranks 180 out of 406. Before him are Alexander P. de Seversky (1894), Kakutsa Cholokashvili (1888), Ioane Petritsi (1050), Tengiz Sulakvelidze (1956), Davit Guramishvili (1705), and Lado Gudiashvili (1896). After him are Titsian Tabidze (1895), Niyazi (1912), Badri Patarkatsishvili (1955), Meliton Balanchivadze (1862), Irakli Garibashvili (1982), and Vakhtang Chabukiani (1910).

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Among LINGUISTS In Georgia

Among linguists born in Georgia, Vasily Abaev ranks 3. Before him are Nicholas Marr (1864), and Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze (1929). After him are Arnold Chikobava (1898).

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