A similar reform movement for Danish, which at this time was the written language also in Norway, was led by Rasmus Rask ( 1787 – 1832 ) and his follower Niels Matthias Petersen ( 1791 – 1862 ).

The term Japhetic was also applied by the early linguists ( brothers Grimm, William Jones, Rasmus C. Rask and others ) to what later became known as the Indo-European language group, on the assumption that, if descended from Japheth, the principal languages of Europe would have a common origin, which apart from Uralic, Kartvelian, Pontic, Dagestanian, and Basque, appears to be the case.

Müller's Turanian theory was based not only on his own extensive research, but also on the works of many other scholars such as Rask, Wilhelm Schott, ‪ Gyarmathi ‬, ‪ Castrén ‬, ‪ Gabelentz ‬ and ‪ Böhtlingk ‬ who had all noted various affinities between these languages.

Rask has also released two singles and a DVD as a singer, distributed by the Norwegian record company Best Of Music.

She is also the owner of Rask Models, a Norwegian model agency.

Tests also showed that Rask had a nearly non-existent T-cell count, leading to a severely depressed immune system.

Merritt Ruhlen writes that Eurasiatic is supported by the existence of a grammatical pattern " whereby plurals of nouns are formed by suffixing-t to the noun root ... whereas duals of nouns are formed by suffixing-k ." Rasmus Rask noted this grammatical pattern in the groups now called Uralic and Eskimo – Aleut as early as 1818, but it can also be found in Altaic, Ainu, Gilyak, and Chukchi – Kamchatkan, all of which Greenberg placed in Eurasiatic.

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Grethe Rask, a medical doctor who worked in Africa in the 1970s is also from Thisted.

Sergeant Rask and furir Tapper who were manning the machinegun was also put to trial since the repositioning had been done with a loaded weapon which was against the Army regulations.

The term Japhetic was also applied by William Jones, Rasmus C. Rask and other pre-Darwinian linguists to what later became known as the Indo-European language group, on the assumption that the principal languages of Europe would have originated with the tribe of Japheth.

For example, in the first edition he declines disg, dceges, plural dcegas, without having observed the law of vowel-change pointed out by Rask.

The correspondence of single consonants had been more or less clearly recognized by several of his predecessors including Friedrich von Schlegel, Rasmus Christian Rask and Johan Ihre, the last having established a considerable number of literarum permutationes, such as b for f, with the examples bœra = ferre, befwer = fiber.

Nonetheless, Rasmus Christian Rask concluded that the texts must indeed be the remnants of a much larger literature, as Pliny the Elder had suggested in his Naturalis Historiae, where he describes one Hermippus of Smyrna having " interpreted two million verses of Zoroaster " in the 3rd century BC.

In Grimm's first editions, his Icelandic paradigms are based entirely on Rask's grammar, and in his second edition, he relied almost entirely on Rask for Old English.

Jacob is recognized for enunciating Grimm's law, the Germanic Sound Shift, that was first observed by the Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask.

As Grimm in the preface to his first edition expressly mentioned this essay of Rask, there is every probability that it inspired his own investigations.

Several Avesta manuscripts were collected by Rasmus Rask on a visit to Bombay ( now Mumbai ) in 1820, and it was Rask's examination of the Avestan language that first established that the texts must indeed be the remnants of a much larger literature of sacred texts.

One of the first such proposals was made by the pioneering Danish linguist Rasmus Rask in 1818, upon noticing similarities between Greenlandic Eskimo and Finnish.

Rask, who died three and a half years prior to AIDS being recognized by the Centers for Disease Control in June 1981, was one of the first non-Africans ( along with Arvid Noe ) known to have died of AIDS-related causes.

Born in 1930 in the Danish town of Thisted, Dr. Rask practiced medicine in Zaïre for a brief period in 1964, when she was recalled back to Europe for training in stomach surgery and tropical illnesses, and from 1972 to 1977, first at a small local hospital in the Zairian town of Abumombazi, and then at the Danish Red Cross Hospital in Kinshasa starting in 1975.

At the time, the doctors treating Rask were at a loss to explain her disease progression, which in retrospect, would come to be seen as one of the first cases of AIDS recorded outside Africa.

Therefore, Rask is one of the first non-Africans to die of AIDS.

Ihre was the first scholar to recognize the sound change of the Germanic languages that was later to be elaborated on by Rasmus Christian Rask and Jakob Grimm and now known after the latter as Grimm's law.

Working in primitive conditions, Rask was the first known confirmed case of AIDS to be discovered by the western medical community

The Toronto Maple Leafs drafted Rask in the first round ( 21st overall ) of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.

On 5 November 2007, Rask was called up from Providence to the Boston Bruins for the first time.

With nagging back spasms keeping Fernandez from play shortly after the All-Star Game break, Rask was once again called up to serve as a second goaltender, and on 31 January 2009 he played his first ( and only ) game with the Bruins in the 2008 – 09 season, and earned his first ever NHL shutout, a 1 – 0 home effort against the New York Rangers, with Marc Savard scoring the only Bruins goal.

Rask described what he vaguely called " Scythian " languages in 1834, which included Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Samoyedic, Eskimo, Caucasian, Basque and others.

In 1818 Rasmus Christian Rask elaborated the set of correspondences to include other Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit and Greek, and the full range of conconants involved.

Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864.

Rask studied at the University of Copenhagen and at once showed remarkable talent for the acquisition of languages.

In October 1816, Rask left Denmark on a literary expedition financed by the king, to prosecute inquiries into the languages of the East, and collect manuscripts for the university library at Copenhagen.

In 1814 the young Dane Rasmus Christian Rask submitted an entry to an essay contest on Icelandic history, in which he concluded that the Germanic languages were ( as we would put it ) in the same language family as Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Lithuanian.

Preceding the acceptance of the Indo-European language family, these languages were considered to be " Japhetite " by some authors ( e. g. Rasmus Rask in 1815 ; see Indo-European studies ).

The # 40 is becoming more common among young goalies, a notable example being Boston's Tuukka Rask.

Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm.

His debt to Rask can be appreciated only by comparing his treatment of Old English in the two editions ; the difference is very great.

The reputation which Rask thus acquired recommended him to the Arnamagnæan Institution, by which he was employed as editor of the Icelandic Lexicon ( 1814 ) of Björn Halldórsson, which had long remained in manuscript.

The roots of the current orthography for Northern Sami were laid by Rasmus Rask who, after discussions with Nils Vibe Stockfleth, published Ræsonneret lappisk sproglære efter den sprogart, som bruges af fjældlapperne i Porsangerfjorden i Finmarken.

The Tetron is later found out to be an invention of the main character's ancestor Rask and one of his friends, Gateau, finds the Tetron's potential as the key to controlling the universe by controlling time.

His contract with Boston lapsing after the 2009 season, as the Bruins preferred to proceed with Thomas and Tuukka Rask as their goaltenders, Fernandez became a free agent, but unsigned by any other team, retired from active play, although he made no formal retirement announcement.

Rask was drafted 21st overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs.