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.

Grigoriy Kapantsyan

Soviet historian, linguist

Arnold Chikobava

Georgian linguist and philologist

Self-taught linguist and ethnographer

Basque writer and linguist.

Modern French linguist and orientalist

Sonja Elen Kisa Kisa

Canadian linguist

Alexander Teodorov-Balan

Bulgarian linguist and literary critic.

Armenian literary scholar, linguist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR (1943).

American linguist

Daniel Adam Veleslavina

Czech publisher, writer, literary organizer and humanist

Anna Wierzbicka

Polish and Australian linguist

Diedrich Westermann

German missionary and linguist

French linguist, professor.

Head of Tourism Australia Representative Office in Japan

Carl Marquard Sauer

German writer and linguist.

German linguist.

Soviet linguist

Antoine Culioli

French linguist, professor

Valentin Avrorin

Soviet linguist

Soviet and Israeli Slavic philologist, linguist and cultural scientist.

Jean-Franzois Champollion

French Egyptologist who was the first to decipher hieroglyphs

Nikolay Dmitriev

Soviet linguist-Turkologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor

Meredith Gardner

American linguist and cryptanalyst

Maximilian Berlitz

German and American linguist and educator

Georg Grotefend

German linguist, antiquarian

Terrence Kaufman

American linguist

Serbian linguist and educator

German linguist, specialist in African languages. Son of theologian Friedrich Blick.

Researcher in Finnish languages

Sir William Jones

"The Father of British Oriental Studies"

Annelies Kammenhuber

German linguist

Leonard Bloomfield

American linguist

Jean-Baptiste Valincour

French aristocrat, novelist, translator, historian, linguist

Zalman Dymshits

Russian linguist, translator

South African linguist, Africanist, one of the leading experts on Bantu languages of the first half of the 20th century.

Macedonian linguist.

Noam Avram Chomsky

American linguist and public figure

Hungarian linguist

Belarusian linguist-dialectologist, historian

George Abraham Grierson

British Indologist linguist and civil servant.

Croatian poet, educator, linguist

Alfred Zhurinsky

Russian linguist, candidate of philological sciences

Armenian scientist and public figure

Victor Borkovsky

Russian linguist, professor, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

American linguist, professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

American anthropologist, linguist and naturalist

French structuralist and semiotician

Asmah Haji Omar

Malaysian linguist