Edward Vajda is a historical linguist at Western Washington University. He has become known for his work on the proposed Dené-Yeniseian language family, seeking to establish that the Ket language of Siberia has a common linguistic ancestor with the Na-Dené languages of North America. He began to study the Ket language in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union; he interviewed Ket speakers in Germany and later traveled to Tomsk in southwestern Siberia to perform fieldwork.

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• Vajda's homepage at Western Washington University
• Video of Vajda introducing the Ket language