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'''Pentti Aalto''' (July 22, July 1917 – November 30, November 1998) was a Finnish linguist who was the [[University of Helsinki]] [[Docent]] of Comparative Linguistics 1958–1980. Aalto was a student of [[G. J. Ramstedt]]. He defended his doctoral dissertation in 1949 in Helsinki.
 
Aalto published on the [[Latin]] [[gerundive]], the Latin [[gerund]], the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[infinitive]], the history of the Finnish study of Oriental, classical, and modern languages. He edited Ramstedt's comparative [[Altaic languages|Altaic]] grammar and completed an edition of the [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]] version of the ''[[Pan̂carakṣā]]'' and a collection of Latin sources of Northeast Asian peoples. He is also the first to translate the ancient [[Tamil language|Tamil]] moral text of the ''Tirukkural'' into Finnish.