langs: 20 апреля [ru] / april 20 [en] / 20. april [de] / 20 avril [fr] / 20 aprile [it] / 20 de abril [es]
days: april 17 / april 18 / april 19 / april 20 / april 21 / april 22 / april 23
Korean mixed script ( Korean : 한자혼용 ; Hanja : 漢字混用 ) is a form of writing the Korean language that uses a mixture of the Korean alphabet or hangul ( 한글 ) and hanja ( 漢字 , 한자 ), the Korean name for Chinese characters . The distribution on how to write words usually follows that all native Korean
Konkani [note 4] ( Kōṅkaṇī ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people , primarily along the western coastal region ( Konkan ) of India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution [9] and the official language of the Indian state of
#1 R. H. Robins
Robert Henry Robins , FBA (1 July 1921 – 20 April 2000), affectionately known to his close ones as Bobby Robins, was a British linguist . Before his retirement, he spent his entire career at the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University o
Maulvi Mohammad Zakaullah or Munshi Zakaullah (20 April 1832–7 November 1910) was a British Indian Urdu writer and translator. He wrote Tarikh-e-Hindustan , a fourteen-volume compilation of Indian history in Urdu. [1] Indian scholar and historian Maulvi Mohammad Zakaullah Born 20 April 1832 Delhi, M
Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 21 May 1771) was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines, The Midwife and The Student , and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding . Smart, a high church Anglican , was widely known throughout Lo
Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade (also known as Eliade or Eliade Rădulescu ; Romanian pronunciation: [ˈi.on heliˈade rəduˈlesku] ; January 6, 1802 – April 27, 1872) was a Wallachian , later Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper ed
Harold Herman Bender (April 20, 1882 – August 16, 1951) was an American philologist who taught for more than forty years at Princeton University , where he served as chair of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. He was the chief etymologist for Webster's New International Dictionary,
Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze [lower-alpha 1] (21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000) [1] was a Georgian - Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 near Kyiv. He founded the internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. Georgian-born Ukrainian jo
Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1 February 1907 – 23 September 1980) was a British academic specialising in linguistics . He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for author Nancy Mitford 's " U and non-U " forms of behaviour and language usage as class indicators. This article is abo
Johann Just Winckelmann (19 August 1620 – 3 July 1699) was a German writer and historian. [1] German writer and historian Johann Just Winckelmann Born 19 August 1620 Gießen , Hessen-Darmstadt Died 3 July 1699 Free imperial city of Bremen Occupation Chronicler Historian Parent(s) Johannes Winckelmann
#9 Philip Rubin
Philip E. Rubin (born May 22, 1949) is an American cognitive scientist , technologist , and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science , neuroscience , and ethical issues related to science , technology , and medicine , at a national level. His researc
Francisco Codera y Zaidín ( Huesca, Spain , 23 June 1836 – 6 November 1917) [1] was a Spanish historian , philologist and Arabist scholar. Among his students, known in the academic field as the Beni Codera , [2] [3] were Arabists Rafael Altamira and José Deleito . [4] Spanish arabist and professor T
#11 Ljudevit Gaj
Ljudevit Gaj ( Croatian: [ʎûdeʋit ɡâːj] ; born Ludwig Gay ; [1] [2] Hungarian : Gáj Lajos ; 8 August 1809 – 20 April 1872) was a Croatian linguist , politician , journalist and writer . He was one of the central figures of the pan-Slavist Illyrian movement . Croatian academic, linguist, writer and
Carl Axel Gottlund (24 February 1796 in Ruotsinpyhtää – 20 April 1875 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish explorer, collector of folklore, historian, cultural politician, linguist, philologist, translator, writer, publisher and lecturer of Finnish language at the University of Helsinki . He was a colorful c
#13 Lo Hsiang-lin
Lo Hsiang-lin (19 October, 1906 – 20 April, 1978) was one of the most renowned researchers in Hakka language and culture . His pioneering research in Hakka genealogy [1] showed that the Hakka are Han Chinese . In this Chinese name , the family name is Lo . Lo Hsiang-lin Traditional Chinese 羅香林 Sim
François Falc'hun (20 April 1901 – 13 January 1991) was a French linguist known for his theories about the origin of the Breton language . He was also an ordained Canon in the Catholic clergy. French linguist François Falc'hun Falc'hun recording a song in 1939 Born 20 April 1901 Bourg-Blanc , Britta
#15 Aco Šopov
Aco Šopov ( Macedonian : Ацо Шопов [ˈat͡sɔ ˈʃɔpɔf] ; 1923 in Štip – 1982 in Skopje ) was a Macedonian poet. He was considered one of the most important poets of Yugoslavia . [1] He took part in World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–45) and his poems written at the time were published as Pesni (Poems) in
#16 Karl V. Teeter
Karl van Duyn Teeter (March 2, 1929 – April 20, 2007) was an American linguist known especially for his work on the Algic languages . American linguist Karl van Duyn Teeter Born ( 1929-03-02 ) March 2, 1929 Died April 20, 2007 (2007-04-20) (aged 78) Citizenship United States Known for work on th