langs: 12 августа [ru] / august 12 [en] / 12. august [de] / 12 août [fr] / 12 agosto [it] / 12 de agosto [es]
days: august 9 / august 10 / august 11 / august 12 / august 13 / august 14 / august 15
#1 Quipu
Quipu (also spelled khipu ) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America . [1] Inca recording system using knotted string For the Quipu X.500 Directory System, see Quipu Directory . See also: Mathematics of the Incas Qui
Jeju (Jeju: 제줏말 , Jejun-mal ; [2] Korean : 제주어 , Jeju-eo or 제주말 , Jeju-mal ), often called Jejueo [3] or Jejuan [4] in English-language scholarship, is a Koreanic language traditionally spoken on Jeju Island , South Korea . While often classified as a divergent Jeju dialect ( Korean: 제주방언 , Jeju ban
Snježana Kordić ( pronounced [sɲěʒana kôːrditɕ] ( listen ) ; born 29 October 1964) [1] is a Croatian linguist . [3] In addition to her work in syntax , she has written on sociolinguistics . [2] Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive langua
Noach (Nojach) Pryłucki or Noach Prilutski (1 October 1882 in Berdichev – 12 August 1941 in Vilnius ) was a Jewish Polish politician from the Folkspartei . He was also a Yiddish linguist, philologist, lawyer and scholar of considerable renown. [1] [2] [3] [4] Pryłucki was a respected attorney and wa
Karen Stollznow (born 12 August 1976) is an Australian -American writer, linguist , and skeptic . Her books include The Language of Discrimination , [6] God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States , [7] [8] Haunting America , [9] Language Myths, Myster
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
#5 Humayun Azad
Humayun Azad (born Humayun Kabir ; 28 April 1947 – 12 August 2004) was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, short-story writer, critic, linguist, columnist and professor of Dhaka University . He wrote more than sixty titles. [ citation needed ] He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1986 for h
Dr. Francis Andrew March (October 25, 1825 – September 9, 1911) was an American polymath , academic, philologist , and lexicographer . He is considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Old English . American classical philologist Francis Andrew March LL.D , D.H.L , D.C.L. ,
Mikalojus Akelaitis ( Polish : Mikołaj Akielewicz , also known by pen-name Juras Varnelis ; 1829–1887) was a prominent Lithuanian writer, publicist and amateur linguist , one of the early figures of the Lithuanian National Revival and participant in the Uprising of 1863 . Mikalojus Akelaitis Born (
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Genevan – American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist. Biographer Nicholas Dungan states that Gallatin was "America's Swiss Founding Father." [3] He is known for being the founder of New York University and for se
#9 Joseph Finnegan (cryptographer)
Joseph Finnegan (August 12, 1905 [1] [2] – September 8, 1980) was a United States Navy linguist and cryptanalyst with Station Hypo during the Second World War . American cryptographer For the Irish judge, see Joseph Finnegan (Irish jurist) . This article needs additional citations for verification .
#10 Harinath De
Harinath De (12 August 1877— 30 August 1911) was an Indian historian, scholar and a polyglot, who later became the first Indian librarian of the National Library of India (then Imperial Library) from 1907 to 1911. [2] In a life span of thirty four years, he learned 34 languages. [3] Not to be confus
Aleksandras Vanagas (August 12, 1934 - April 13, 1995) was Lithuanian linguist, one of the leading Lithuanian etymologists. Lithuanian linguist Aleksandras Vanagas Born Aleksandras Vanagas ( 1934-08-12 ) 12 August 1934 Buivėnai , Kupiškis Volost , Lithuania Died 13 April 1995 (1995-04-13) (aged 60
#12 Ronald Lee
Ronald Lee (August 12 [ citation needed ] , 1934 [1] [2] – January 25, 2020 [3] ) was a Romani Canadian writer, linguist, professor, folk musician, and activist. [4] He studied Romani society and culture and worked to foster intercultural dialogue between Roma and Non-Roma . [1] [2] Romani-Canadia
Benjamin Feigenbaum (August 12, 1860 – November 10, 1932) was a Polish -born Jewish socialist , newspaper editor, translator, and satirist. Feigenbaum was an associate editor of the Yiddish language The Forward , its predecessor Di Arbeter Tsaytung, and the literary monthly Di Tsukunft , co-founder
#14 Witold Mańczak
Witold Mańczak (12 August 1924 – 12 January 2016) [1] was a Polish linguist . He was a member of Polish Academy of Learning and the Polish Academy of Sciences . He is best known for his historical linguistics work on identifying, via statistical methods focusing especially on well-studied European l
#15 Oleg Grushecki
Oleg Grushecki ( Belarusian : Алег Грушэцкі ; born 8 May 1974 in Minsk ) is a Belarusian writer, journalist, translator, public figure. The revivalist of scouting in Belarus, one of the founders of the «Belarusian Scout Association». [1] [2] Author of literary and historical articles in both Belarus
#16 Johannes Friedrich (linguist)
Johannes Friedrich (27 August 1893, in Leipzig-Schönefeld – 12 August 1972, in Berlin ) was a German hittitologist who published the Hethitisches Elementarbuch (1940), and the Kurzgefasstes Hethitisches Wörterbuch (1966). A translation of his book "Entzifferung Verschollener Schriften und Sprachen"
#17 Robert Hetzron
Robert Hetzron , born Herzog (31 December 1938, Budapest – 12 August 1997, Santa Barbara, California ), was a Hungarian-born linguist known for his work on the comparative study of Afro-Asiatic languages , as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages . [1] Hungarian linguist
#18 Lucien Tesnière
Lucien Tesnière ( French: [lysjɛ̃ tɛnjɛʁ] ; May 13, 1893 – December 6, 1954) was a prominent and influential French linguist . He was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan on May 13, 1893. As a maître de conférences (senior lecturer) in University of Strasbourg (1924), and later professor in University of Mon