Ferenc Sima

* Alsócsitár, March 28, 1917 – † Bratislava, April 24, 2005 / linguist, associate professor ; ; He graduated from high school in Bratislava (1935), then in 1944 he obtained a teaching certificate in Slovak-Hungarian at the Comenius University. After World War II, he was an employee of the Pravda Publishing House for years, and from 1953 until his retirement (1983) he was an assistant professor and then associate professor at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Comenius University. In 1976–1979 he worked as a visiting professor at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. His fields of expertise are phonetics, phonology, Hungarian and Finno-Ugric language history, dialectology, lexicology and contrastive linguistics. His studies have been published in professional journals, university yearbooks and conference proceedings. In 1966, he published a Slovak–Hungarian and Hungarian–Slovak pocket dictionary, and in 1996, together with Edit Chrenka and Mária Kazimír, he also compiled a Slovak–Hungarian and Hungarian–Slovak hand-held dictionary. ; ; His main work is considered to be the work entitled Hungarian Linguistic History, the chapter on Hungarian phonetic history of which is also of fundamental importance in the context of universal Hungarian linguistics. He drew attention to several previously unrecognized connections between today's dialects. In 1979, together with Tibor Ág (Nagymegyer), he published the collection Vétessek ki szóló szívem. Szlóvakiai magyar népballadák.