Description: (Philologist)
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist, semiotician, and Indo-Europeanist known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and proposing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia. Ivanov made significant contributions to the study of ancient languages and cultures, particularly focusing on the historical linguistics of the Indo-European language family. His work has had a lasting impact on the field and continues to be influential in the study of language origins and development.