Shichirō Murayama

Abstract is: Shichirō Murayama (村山 七郎, Murayama Shichirō, 25 December 1908, in Ibaraki Prefecture – 13 May 1995) was a Japanese linguist who started his career lecturing at Juntendo University, and went on to become full professor at Kyoto Sangyo University. One of the world’s foremost authorities on the Altaic languages, he later made important contributions to the mixed-language theory of the origins of Japanese. Denis Sinor regarded him, together with Shirō Hattori, Samuel E. Martin, and as one of the four scholars who have done the most to throw light on the origins of the Japanese language.