Linguists

Celebrities in category Linguists. List of famous people in category Linguists.

Mary Haas
USA
American linguist
Henri Frei
Sweden
Swiss linguist, professor, one of the representatives of the Geneva school.
Johann Fater
Germany
German linguist and theologian.
Ernst Faber
Germany
German missionary, sinologist and botanist
Jost Trier
Germany
German philologist
Varlam Topuria
Georgia
Georgian linguist
Vilhelm Thomsen
Denmark
Danish linguist
Alexander Teodorov-Balan
Bulgaria
Bulgarian linguist and literary critic.
Lucien Tesniere
France
French linguist
Ferdinand Saussure
Switzerland
Swiss linguist, one of the founders of modern linguistic science
Albert Sechehaye
Switzerland
Swiss linguist, one of the leading representatives of the Geneva School.
Edward Sapir
USA
American linguist and anthropologist.
Hermann Paul
Germany
German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism
James Matisoff
USA
American linguist, emeritus professor.
John Muir
Great Britain
Scottish Sanskrit and Indologist.
Vilem Mathesius
Czech
Czech linguist
Jean-Paul Martan
France
Professor of didactics of French language and literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Elias Lenrott
France
The largest representative of Finnish culture, an outstanding researcher of the Karelian-Finnish epic “Kalevala”, linguist, doctor by training.
George Lakoff
USA
American linguist
Erney Kopitar
Slovenia
Slovenian linguist.
Mathias Alexander Castren
Finland
Finnish and Russian linguist
Aleksandr Issatschenko
Austria
Czechoslovakian and Austrian linguist
Jules Gillieron
Switzerland
Linguist
Louis Hjelmslev
Denmark
Danish linguist, founder of glossematics
Martyn Doke
South Africa
South African linguist, Africanist, one of the leading experts on Bantu languages of the first half of the 20th century.
Sir William Jones
Great Britain
"The Father of British Oriental Studies"
Berdzhih Grozniy
Czech
Czech orientalist and linguist.
Michael Veske
Estonia
Researcher in Finnish languages
Karl Bugmann
Germany
German linguist
Michelem Breal
France
French linguist and philologist
Leonard Bloomfield
USA
American linguist
Wilhelm Bleek
Germany
German linguist, specialist in African languages. Son of theologian Friedrich Blick.
Emile Benveniste
France
French linguist
Roland Barthes
France
French structuralist and semiotician
Charles Bally
Switzerland
Swiss linguist
Joan Bybee
USA
American linguist, professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Gotzon Garate
Spain
Basque writer and linguist.
Boris Kolker
Moldova
Soviet Esperantologist, language teacher and translator
Smet Kenesbaev
Kazakhstan
Soviet and Kazakh linguist-Turkologist
Mark Hucko
Slovakia
Slovak linguist.
Carl Abraham Clewberg
Sweden
Swedish linguist
Carl Marquard Sauer
Germany
German writer and linguist.
Ernst Sittig
Germany
German linguist
Krume Kepeski
Macedonia
Macedonian linguist.
Gaston Waringhien
France
French linguist
Graziadio Ascoli
Italy
Italian linguist.
Diedrich Westermann
Germany
German missionary and linguist
Elias Lenrott
France
Ljudevit Gaj
Croatia
Croatian poet, educator, linguist
Jan Ivar Bjornflaten
Norway
Norwegian linguist, Russianist.

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