Linguist

Explore the world's most renowned linguists, celebrated for their exceptional language skills and contributions to the field of linguistics. Discover their lives, accomplishments, and the impact they have made on our understanding of language and communication.

American linguist

Basque writer and linguist.

Chinese linguist and economist

Gevorg Djaukyan

Armenian linguist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.

Algirdas Julien Greimas

Lithuanian and French linguist, folklorist and literary scholar.

Stefania Giannini

Italian linguist, politician

Sir William Jones

"The Father of British Oriental Studies"

Jan Ivar Bjornflaten

Norwegian linguist, Russianist.

Croatian poet, educator, linguist

Paul Olaf Bodding

Norwegian Protestant missionary, linguist and folklorist

Boris Bogorodsky

Soviet linguist

Zellig Sabbettai Harris

American linguist

German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism

William Stewart Cornyn

American linguist

Vladislav Cotwich

Polish linguist

Lucien Tesniere

French linguist

Daniel Adam Veleslavina

Czech publisher, writer, literary organizer and humanist

Soviet linguist

Hungarian linguist

Wolfgang Dressler

Austrian linguist, professor

Jean-Baptiste Valincour

French aristocrat, novelist, translator, historian, linguist

Jacob Wackernagel

American linguist and anthropologist.

Self-taught linguist and ethnographer

Sonja Elen Kisa Kisa

Canadian linguist

Ali Akbar Dehkhoda

Iranian linguist, writer and public figure

Friedrich-Eduard Konig

German theologian, biblical scholar and linguist

Zalman Dymshits

Russian linguist, translator

Sarsen Amanzholov

Soviet linguist and Turkologist

Linguist, specialist in general linguistics, Russian, Slavic and French languages

Ferdinand Saussure

Swiss linguist, one of the founders of modern linguistic science

Ahmet Baitursynov

Kazakh public figure, educator, linguist, literary scholar, Turkologist, translator

Turkologist-linguist, researcher of the Khakass language, candidate of philological sciences

German linguist

Leonard Bloomfield

American linguist

Alexander Bader

French linguist, the leading modern scholar in the field of Jewish onomastics.

French structuralist and semiotician

Swiss linguist, professor, one of the representatives of the Geneva school.

Researcher in Finnish languages

American linguist

Maximilian Berlitz

German and American linguist and educator

Emmanuel Laroche

French linguist

Teodor Shumovskiy

Candidate of Philological Sciences and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Arabist The first to translate the Koran from Arabic into Russian - in verse!

Terrence Kaufman

American linguist

Georgian linguist

Graziadio Ascoli

Italian linguist.

Jean-Franzois Champollion

French Egyptologist who was the first to decipher hieroglyphs

Tamaz Gamkrelidze

Georgian and Soviet linguist, orientalist