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
GeorgiaGeorgian 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
USAAmerican 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
GermanyGerman 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
FranceFrench linguist
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Anna Wierzbicka
DivePolish and Australian linguist
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Ernst Faber
GermanyGerman 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
USAAmerican anthropologist, linguist and naturalist
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Wallace Chafe
USAAmerican 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
CzechCzech linguist, professor
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Lev Scherba
RussiaLinguist, specialist in general linguistics, Russian, Slavic and French languages
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John Grinder
USAAmerican author, linguist and co-author
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Sarsen Amanzholov
Soviet linguist and Turkologist
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Talmy Givon
USAAmerican linguist
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Sir William Jones
Great Britain"The Father of British Oriental Studies"
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Hermann Paul
GermanyGerman linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism
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David Diringer
Great BritainBritish linguist and writer.
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Michael Veske
EstoniaResearcher in Finnish languages
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Roland Barthes
FranceFrench structuralist and semiotician
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Carl Abraham Clewberg
SwedenSwedish linguist
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Pavel Shein
RussiaSelf-taught linguist and ethnographer
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Paul Ariste
EstoniaEstonian linguist and ethnographer
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Hans Krahe
GermanyGerman linguist who specialized in Illyrian languages
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Asmah Haji Omar
MalaysiaMalaysian linguist
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Friedrich-Eduard Konig
GermanyGerman theologian, biblical scholar and linguist
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Annelies Kammenhuber
GermanyGerman linguist
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Karl Eduard Sachau
GermanyGerman orientalist, linguist.
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Emil Baletsky
CzechTranscarpathian poet, linguist, teacher, translator.
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Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
IranIranian linguist, writer and public figure
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