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Profiles

  • Dr. Yuen Ren Chao 趙元任 (1892 - 1982)
    Chao Yuen-ren (1892-), known as Y. R. Chao, internationally known linguist. Originally concentrating on phonology, he made the first detailed recordings of major dialect areas in China, establishing th...
  • Mario Andrew Pei (1901 - 1978)
    Mario Andrew Pei (February 16, 1901 – March 2, 1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professi...
  • Prof. Ray March Merrill (1882 - 1963)
    World War I Service: YMCA Ray March Merrill French instructor, University South Dakota, Vermillion SD Enlisted 06/15/1918 Discharged 08/03/1918 "United States, YMCA World War I Service C...
  • Wolfgang Schlachter (1908 - 1999)
    Carl Wolfgang Schlachter , filosofie dr, född 1908-04-19 i Hamburg. Gift 1936-07-01 i Stockholm med Signe Anna Matilda Bergenstråhle , från vilken han blev skild genom Stockholms rådhusrätts dom 1941...
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    Manuel Bernabé (1890 - 1960)
    Manuel Bernabe y Hernandez was a Filipino journalist, politician, linguist, and poet in Spanish and Latin languages. He was given the title "King of Balagtasan" in Spanish. Wikipedia Gallery of Il...

Linguists

A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics

Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these two uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be a polyglot in order to be an academic linguist). The following is a list of linguists in the academic sense.

List of linguists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguists