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.

British hyperlinguist who speaks 18 languages

Russian linguist (philosopher by education), professor (1947), Doctor of Philological Sciences (1947).

Soviet and Kazakh linguist-Turkologist

Ferdinand Saussure

Swiss linguist, one of the founders of modern linguistic science

Alfred Zhurinsky

Russian linguist, candidate of philological sciences

Jean-Paul Martan

Professor of didactics of French language and literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Ambrogio Calepino

Italian lexicographer

William Stewart Cornyn

American linguist

Aron Dolgopolskiy

Soviet and Israeli linguist.

Sir William Jones

"The Father of British Oriental Studies"

American linguist and anthropologist.

Ronald W. Langacker

American linguist

Marcel Bernard Jullien

French linguist and teacher-methodologist.

Scottish Sanskrit and Indologist.

Georgiy Akhvlediani

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

Emile Benveniste

French linguist

Boris Bogorodsky

Soviet linguist

Jerzy Kurylowicz

Polish linguist

Bernhard Karlgren

Swedish sinologist and linguist

Modern French linguist and orientalist

American linguist

Daniel Adam Veleslavina

Czech publisher, writer, literary organizer and humanist

Chinese linguist and economist

Louis Hjelmslev

Danish linguist, founder of glossematics

Alan Henderson Gardiner

English Egyptologist and linguist.

Josef Dobrovsky

Czech philologist (linguist, literary scholar, folklorist), historian and educator

Yann Fransez Vari ar Gonideg

French linguist

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

Algirdas Julien Greimas

Lithuanian and French linguist, folklorist and literary scholar.

Russian folklorist, one of the founders of modern text theory

German linguist who specialized in Illyrian languages

Antoine Culioli

French linguist, professor

Sonja Elen Kisa Kisa

Canadian linguist

French structuralist and semiotician

Clement Martyn Doke

South African linguist, Africanist

Alexander Vovin

American linguist

Lucien Tesniere

French linguist

Georgian linguist

American linguist

German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism

Jean-Baptiste Valincour

French aristocrat, novelist, translator, historian, linguist

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

Henry Allan Gleason Jr.

Canadian linguist, professor

French linguist and philologist

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

Aleksandr Issatschenko

Czechoslovakian and Austrian linguist

Head of Tourism Australia Representative Office in Japan

Dutch linguist.

Linguist of the Livonian language, Livonian poet and prose writer