How to Pronounce Helma van den Berg
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May 26, 1965 Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands Died on 11 Nov 2003 (aged 38)
Linguist and caucasologist from Netherlands
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About Helma Van Den Berg
- Helma van den Berg (May 26, 1965 – November 11, 2003) was a linguist specializing in Caucasian languages.
- Van den Berg was born in Veenendaal, the Netherlands, and died in Derbent, Daghestan, Russia.
- She earned her PhD from Leiden University.
- In addition to being a linguist, Van den Berg was an accredited translator of Russian and Polish.
- Van den Berg did field work on two under-documented East Caucasian languages: Hunzib and Dargi, producing a Hunzib reference grammar and a collection of Dargi folktales with accompanying sketch grammar.
- At the time of her death, Van den Berg was the resident specialist of Caucasian languages at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and was working on a grammar of Avar.
- She was also the recipient of a VIDI Innovation Fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
