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.
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Bernhard Karlgren
 SwedenSwedish sinologist and linguist
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Grigoriy Kapantsyan
 ArmeniaSoviet historian, linguist
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Mathurin Veyssiere Croze
 FranceFrench orientalist and Armenologist, linguist, Benedictine.
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Joseph Greenberg
 USAAmerican linguist, professor at Stanford University
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Georgiy Gerovsky
Carpatho-Russian linguist, ethnographer, teacher
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Arnold Chikobava
 GeorgiaGeorgian linguist and philologist
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Varlam Topuria
Georgia Georgian linguist
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Graziadio Ascoli
 ItalyItalian linguist.
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Mark Hucko
 SlovakiaSlovak linguist.
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Alexander Teodorov-Balan
 BulgariaBulgarian linguist and literary critic.
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Georg Grotefend
 GermanyGerman linguist, antiquarian
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Mathias Alexander Castren
 FinlandFinnish and Russian linguist
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Paul Wexler
 IsraelIsraeli linguist, US-born, professor of linguistics
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Jerzy Kurylowicz
 PolandPolish linguist
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Meredith Gardner
USA American linguist and cryptanalyst
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Vladimir Propp
Russian folklorist, one of the founders of modern text theory
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Leo Weisgerber
Germany German linguist
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Aleksandr Issatschenko
 AustriaCzechoslovakian and Austrian linguist
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Louis Hjelmslev
 DenmarkDanish linguist, founder of glossematics
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Boris Bogorodsky
Soviet linguist
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Josef Dobrovsky
 CzechCzech philologist (linguist, literary scholar, folklorist), historian and educator
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Emile Benveniste
France French linguist
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Anna Wierzbicka
 DivePolish and Australian linguist
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Ernst Faber
Germany German missionary, sinologist and botanist
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Igor Anichkov
Russian linguist (philosopher by education), professor (1947), Doctor of Philological Sciences (1947).
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Ray Gillon
 Great BritainBritish hyperlinguist who speaks 18 languages
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Gotzon Garate
 SpainBasque writer and linguist.
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Franz Boas
USA American anthropologist, linguist and naturalist
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Wallace Chafe
USA American linguist
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Iakov Testelets
 RussiaRussian linguist, specialist in typology and syntactic theory, researcher of Caucasian languages.
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Vaclav Blazek
Czech Czech linguist, professor
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Lev Scherba
Russia Linguist, specialist in general linguistics, Russian, Slavic and French languages
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John Grinder
USA American author, linguist and co-author
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Sarsen Amanzholov
Soviet linguist and Turkologist
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Talmy Givon
USA American linguist
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Sir William Jones
Great Britain "The Father of British Oriental Studies"
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Hermann Paul
Germany German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism
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David Diringer
Great Britain British linguist and writer.
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Michael Veske
 EstoniaResearcher in Finnish languages
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Roland Barthes
France French structuralist and semiotician
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Carl Abraham Clewberg
Sweden Swedish linguist
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Pavel Shein
Russia Self-taught linguist and ethnographer
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Paul Ariste
Estonia Estonian linguist and ethnographer
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Hans Krahe
Germany German linguist who specialized in Illyrian languages
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Asmah Haji Omar
 MalaysiaMalaysian linguist
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Friedrich-Eduard Konig
Germany German theologian, biblical scholar and linguist
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Annelies Kammenhuber
Germany German linguist
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Karl Eduard Sachau
Germany German orientalist, linguist.
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Emil Baletsky
Czech Transcarpathian poet, linguist, teacher, translator.
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Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
 IranIranian linguist, writer and public figure
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