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Alf Torp

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Alf Torp was a Norwegian linguist and lexicographer who specialized in Indo-European and Nordic language history. He was a professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the University of Kristiania from 1894 and worked on ancient and extinct languages as well as Scandinavian etymology. With Hjalmar Falk, he co-authored Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog, published in two volumes from 1903 to 1906, and he later wrote Nynorsk etymologisk ordbok.

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