Carl Borgstrøm Explained

Carl Hjalmar Borgstrøm
Birth Date:	1909
Death Date:	1986
Nationality:	Norwegian
Field:	linguistics, Celtic studies
Work Institutions:	University of Oslo
Known For:	work in Scottish Gaelic linguistics

Carl Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1909–1986) was a Norwegian professor of Indo-European linguistics who made significant contributions to the scientific study of Scottish Gaelic and Irish.^{[1] [2]}

His key publications on Scottish Gaelic include:

• (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap 8
• (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland. The dialects of the Outer Hebrides Oslo University Press
• (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland. The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire Oslo University Press

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carl Hjalmar Borgstrøm. 6 December 2011 . Norwegian. Store Norske Lekiskon. 15 April 2012.
2. Web site: Irish Researchers and Writers. University of Duisburg. 15 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120127143508/http://www.uni-due.de/DI/Researchers_Writers.htm#. 2012-01-27. dead.