Somfai Kara David

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PhD Somfai Kara David
Somfai Kara David (right) with his wife Aida Kazybaeva-Somfai (left) in 2011
Born	(1969-04-21) 21 April 1969 (age 55) Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Awards	Eötvös Scholarship in 2001 HAESF Senior Leaders and Scholars Fellowship in 2010
Academic background
Education	Mongolian Orientalist performers
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd University
Academic work
Discipline	Central Asian Linguistics and Ethnography
Institutions	Nazarbayev University]

Somfai Kara David (born 21 April 1969, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian academic of Linguistics and Ethnography currently working in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree, and his academic discipline focuses on the cultures and languages of the Central Asian people such as Turkic and Mongolic people. Apart from Central Asian Turkic (Kyrgyz, Kazakh etc.) and Mongolian languages, he has a knowledge of English and Russian languages.^[1] He also researched on and published several works regarding the folklore, tradition, mythology, and religion of those people.^[2]

• Name Authority File of Library of Congress
• Goodreads
• Kazak, Languages of the World on Scribd
• DUNA appearance on Hungarian TV
• https://www.azattyk.org/a/david-kara-somfai_and_istvan-mandoki-kongur_18-5-2017_kyrgyz/28497049.html?nocache=1

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