{{Short description|Russian linguist}} '''Georgy Klimov''' ({{langx|ru|Гео́ргий Андре́евич Кли́мов}}, ''Georgiy Andreyevich Klimov'') (September 23, 1928 – April 29, 1997) was a Russian linguist and a leading specialist of the [[Caucasian languages]]. His interest focused primarily on the [[Kartvelian languages|Kartvelian]] linguistics but also encompassed the [[Burushaski language]] and the [[Amerind languages|Amerind]] language group.
== Biography == Born in [[Leningrad]], Klimov graduated from the [[Leningrad State University]] in 1952. From 1954 onward, he worked for the [[Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences|Institute of Linguistics]] of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences]], becoming a professor there in 1988. He died in [[Moscow]] in 1997, leaving behind over 360 scholarly works and many projects uncompleted. An important work in the field of [[comparative linguistics]] of Kartvelian languages, ''Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages'', was published in 1998.<ref>[http://www.mapageweb.umontreal.ca/tuitekj/publications/Tuite-2000-revKlimov.pdf Georgij Andreevich Klimov. ''Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages'' (Mouton deGruyter, 1998)] reviewed for ''Anthropological Linguistics'' vol 42 #4 (2000) by [[Kevin Tuite]], [[Université de Montréal]].</ref>
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