Sorin Paliga

Sorin Paliga (born Viorel-Sorin Paliga on 21 June 1956 in Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania) is a Romanian linguist and politician. He is a university professor at the University of Bucharest. As a politician, he was the former mayor of Sector 3 of Bucharest from June 1996 to June 2000, and was affiliated with the National Liberal Party (PNL).^[2][3]

Sorin Paliga
Born	Viorel-Sorin Paliga (1956-06-21) 21 June 1956 (age 69) Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Occupation(s)	Linguist and politician
Spouse	Rodica Paliga [1]
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Bucharest
Academic work
Institutions	University of Bucharest
Main interests	Eastern Romance languages, South Slavic languages, pre-Indo-European languages

Research interests

Paliga's main research interests include the influence of Dacian on Romanian, language contact, and Indo-European philology.

Paliga is a proponent of N. D. Andreev [ru]'s Boreal languages [ru] theory, which links the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic language families.^[4][5]

Life

Paliga studied Czech and English at the University of Bucharest. He received his doctorate in 1998 by completing his dissertation on Roman and pre-Roman influences in South Slavic languages.^[6] Since 2001 he teaches Czech and comparative grammar of the Slavic Languages at the University of Bucharest.

Married to Rodica Paliga in 1985, a teacher of Latin and French, they have 3 children.

Selected works by Sorin Paliga

Books

• Thracian and Pre-Thracian Studies (1999)
• Toponimia slavă și preslavă în sud- estul european. Introducere în studiul toponimiei slave arhaice (2003)
• Mitologia slavilor (2006)
• Introducere în studiul comparativ al limbilor slave (2012)
• Influențe romane și preromane în limbile slave de sud （2013）
• Morfologia limbii cehe, partea a II- a. Sfera nominală (2014)
• An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language (2024)