Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Ferdinand de Saussure yana daya daga cikin masana harsunan duniya da aka fi ambata, wanda yake da ban mamaki saboda shi kansa ba shi da wani abu da ya buga a lokacin rayuwarsa. Ko da 'yan labaransa na kimiyya ba su da matsala. Don haka, alal misali, littafinsa game da ilimin harshe na Lithuania an ɗauke shi ne daga binciken masanin Lithuania Friedrich Kurschat, wanda Saussure ya yi tafiya tare da Lithuania a watan Agusta 1880 na makonni biyu kuma wanda Saussure ya karanta littattafansa (na Jamusanci). Saussure, wanda ya yi nazarin wasu mahimman ilimin harshe na Lithuanian a Leipzig na semester daya amma bai iya magana da yaren ba, don haka ya dogara da Kurschat. Har ila yau, abin tambaya ne a cikin abin da Cours kanta za a iya ganowa zuwa Saussure (shi kaɗai). Nazarin ya nuna cewa aƙalla sigar yanzu da abin da ke ciki sun fi samun abin da ake kira editocin Charles Bally da Albert Sèchehaye a matsayin tushen su fiye da Saussure da kansa. Ya koyar a École pratique des hautes études tsawon shekaru goma sha ɗaya a lokacin da aka nada shi Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor). Lokacin da aka ba da farfesa a Geneva a 1892, ya koma Switzerland. Saussure ya koyar da Sanskrit da Indo-Turai a Jami'ar Geneva har tsawon rayuwarsa. Ba har zuwa 1907 cewa Saussure ya fara koyar da Course of General Linguistics, wanda zai ba da sau uku, ya ƙare a lokacin rani na 1911. Ya mutu a 1913 a Vufflens-le-Château, Vaud, Switzerland. 'Yan uwansa sune masanin harshe da Esperantist René de Saussure, da masanin ilimin taurari na tsohuwar kasar Sin, Léopold de Saussure. A biyun, dansa shi ne masanin ilimin halayyar dan adam Raymond de Saussure.  Tambaya: Wace hanya Saussure ya koyar?
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