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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Joan Bybee
 USAAmerican linguist, professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
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Daniel Adam Veleslavina
Czech publisher, writer, literary organizer and humanist
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Pavel Shein
 RussiaSelf-taught linguist and ethnographer
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Adele Eva Goldberg
USA American linguist and cognitive psychologist
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Cyrus Herzl Gordon
USA American linguist
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Berthold Delbruck
 GermanyGerman linguist
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Louis Hjelmslev
 DenmarkDanish linguist, founder of glossematics
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Sonja Elen Kisa Kisa
 CanadaCanadian linguist
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Franz Boas
USA American anthropologist, linguist and naturalist
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Charles Bally
 SwitzerlandSwiss linguist
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Alexander Teodorov-Balan
 BulgariaBulgarian linguist and literary critic.
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Yonas Yablonskis
 LithuaniaAmerican tenor saxophonist
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John Grinder
USA American author, linguist and co-author
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Teodor Shumovskiy
Russia Candidate of Philological Sciences and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Arabist The first to translate the Koran from Arabic into Russian - in verse!
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Ivan Meshanov
Russian linguist
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Maximilian Berlitz
Germany German and American linguist and educator
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Jean-Franzois Champollion
 FranceFrench Egyptologist who was the first to decipher hieroglyphs
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Vladislav Cotwich
 PolandPolish linguist
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Jerzy Kurylowicz
Poland Polish linguist
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Harold Williams
 Great BritainBritish linguist, journalist, intelligence officer, famous polyglot (speaking 58 languages).
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Marcel Bernard Jullien
France French linguist and teacher-methodologist.
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Robert James
Great Britain English physician
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Gevorg Djaukyan
 ArmeniaArmenian linguist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.
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Hans Krahe
Germany German linguist who specialized in Illyrian languages
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Zhou Youguang
 ChinaChinese linguist and economist
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Sir William Jones
Great Britain "The Father of British Oriental Studies"
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William Labov
USA American linguist
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Ray Gillon
Great Britain British hyperlinguist who speaks 18 languages
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Ljudevit Gaj
 CroatiaCroatian poet, educator, linguist
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Mathurin Veyssiere Croze
France French orientalist and Armenologist, linguist, Benedictine.
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Aleksandr Issatschenko
 AustriaCzechoslovakian and Austrian linguist
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Georgiy Gerovsky
Carpatho-Russian linguist, ethnographer, teacher
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Albert Sechehaye
Switzerland Swiss linguist, one of the leading representatives of the Geneva School.
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Karl Eduard Sachau
Germany German orientalist, linguist.
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Varlam Topuria
 GeorgiaGeorgian linguist
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Joseph Greenberg
USA American linguist, professor at Stanford University
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Wolfgang Dressler
Austria Austrian linguist, professor
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Hermann Paul
Germany German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism
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Roland Barthes
France French structuralist and semiotician
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Martyn Doke
 South AfricaSouth African linguist, Africanist, one of the leading experts on Bantu languages of the first half of the 20th century.
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Henri Frei
 SwedenSwiss linguist, professor, one of the representatives of the Geneva school.
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Dorothea Bleek
South Africa German linguist.
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George Lakoff
USA American linguist
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Aleksander Wat
Poland Polish writer, poet, translator
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Volf Moskovich
 IsraelSoviet and Israeli Slavic philologist, linguist and cultural scientist.
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Paul Ariste
 EstoniaEstonian linguist and ethnographer
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Mark Hucko
 SlovakiaSlovak linguist.
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Annelies Kammenhuber
Germany German linguist
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Elias Lenrott
France The largest representative of Finnish culture, an outstanding researcher of the Karelian-Finnish epic “Kalevala”, linguist, doctor by training.
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Wilhelm Bleek
Germany German linguist, specialist in African languages. Son of theologian Friedrich Blick.
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