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.

American author, linguist and co-author

Serbian linguist and educator

Vladislav Cotwich

Polish linguist

Soviet and Kazakh linguist-Turkologist

Ahmet Baitursynov

Kazakh public figure, educator, linguist, literary scholar, Turkologist, translator

Cyrus Herzl Gordon

American linguist

Louis Lucien Bonaparte

French linguist

Carl Marquard Sauer

German writer and linguist.

Clement Martyn Doke

South African linguist, Africanist

German missionary, sinologist and botanist

French linguist and philologist

Leonard Bloomfield

American linguist

Alexander Bader

French linguist, the leading modern scholar in the field of Jewish onomastics.

Czech poet and translator

Soviet Esperantologist, language teacher and translator

French structuralist and semiotician

American linguist

Ali Akbar Dehkhoda

Iranian linguist, writer and public figure

British and Australian linguist, professor

Henry Allan Gleason Jr.

Canadian linguist, professor

Nikolay Durnovo

Russian linguist, Slavist and Russianist.

Jan Ivar Bjornflaten

Norwegian linguist, Russianist.

Mathurin Veyssiere Croze

French orientalist and Armenologist, linguist, Benedictine.

French linguist, professor.

Zalman Dymshits

Russian linguist, translator

Joseph Greenberg

American linguist, professor at Stanford University

Zellig Sabbettai Harris

American linguist

Alexander Vovin

American linguist

Sonja Elen Kisa Kisa

Canadian linguist

Danish linguist.

Paul Olaf Bodding

Norwegian Protestant missionary, linguist and folklorist

Berthold Delbruck

German linguist

Terrence Kaufman

American linguist

Sarsen Amanzholov

Soviet linguist and Turkologist

Scottish Sanskrit and Indologist.

A famous Ukrainian lexicographer, poet, translator, engraver and publisher.

German linguist

Grigoriy Kapantsyan

Soviet historian, linguist

Mathias Alexander Castren

Finnish and Russian linguist

Marcel Bernard Jullien

French linguist and teacher-methodologist.

Vladimir Georgiev

Bulgarian linguist, academician.

Alan Henderson Gardiner

English Egyptologist and linguist.

Macedonian linguist.

American linguist

Arnold Chikobava

Georgian linguist and philologist

Basque writer and linguist.

Jerzy Kurylowicz

Polish linguist

Czech linguist, professor

Jean-Paul Martan

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

American linguist