YEREVAN TO HOST ‘THE JAHUKIAN READINS’ CONFERENCE

Aysor
May 3 2010
Armenia

A Republican science conference, entitled "The Jahukian Readins,"
will gather together scholars and experts at Yerevan’s Institute of
Linguistics of Armenia’s National Science Academy after H. Atcharian
on May 6-7.

Institute’s deputy director Nazik Hovhannisian told journalists that
28 speakers from Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh’s colleges will deliver
their presentations to the conference. This year’s conference is
being held for the fifth time.

"The Jahukian Readins have been holding since 2006, marking the fifth
time this year," Nazik Hovhannisian said. "We have been organizing such
programs and discussions after death of Gevorg Jahukian, a linguist."

Professor Gevorg Jahukian is a well-known Armenia’s linguist, scholar
and academician; Gevorg Jahukian authored 100 works, mostly related
to the comparative linguistics, study of the Armenian, Urartian and
Huyasian languages.

Professor Gevorg Jahukian (Dzhahukyan, Dzhahukian) was born on April
1 1920 in Shakhnazar village (renamed into Metsavan Village of Lori
region of Armenia). He graduated from the Yerevan State University in
1941, where his career started from the Senior lecture in 1945-49s,
then continued at a post of the Associate Professor in 1949-58s.

During these years he led the Department for the Foreign Languages.

Gevorg Jahukian became a professor in 1958, and an academician in 1977.