langs: 12 февраля [ru] / february 12 [en] / 12. februar [de] / 12 février [fr] / 12 febbraio [it] / 12 de febrero [es]
days: february 9 / february 10 / february 11 / february 12 / february 13 / february 14 / february 15
#1 Latin script
The Latin script , also known as Roman script , is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet , derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet used by the Etruscans . Several Latin-script alphabets exist, which differ in graphemes, colla
Telugu script ( Telugu : తెలుగు లిపి , romanized : Telugu lipi ), an abugida from the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language , a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as well as several other neighbouring states. The Telugu script i
Manx ( Gaelg or Gailck , pronounced [ɡilɡ, -eːlɡ ] or [gilk] ), [3] also known as Manx Gaelic , is a Goidelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family , itself a branch of the Indo-European language family . Manx is the historical language of the Manx people . Goidelic Cel
#2 Pashto
Pashto [lower-alpha 1] ( / ˈ p ʌ ʃ t oʊ / , [5] [3] [4] / ˈ p æ ʃ t oʊ / ; [lower-alpha 2] پښتو , Pəx̌tó , [pəʂˈto, pʊxˈto, pəʃˈto, pəçˈto] ), is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family . It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ( افغانی , Afghāni ). [7] Easte
#3 Esperanto
Esperanto ( / ˌ ɛ s p ə ˈ r ɑː n t oʊ / or / ˌ ɛ s p ə ˈ r æ n t oʊ / ) [5] [6] is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language . Created by Warsaw -based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international commun
Geoffrey Lewis Lewis CMG FBA (19 June 1920 – 12 February 2008) was an English Professor of the Turkish language at the University of Oxford . He was well known as the author of Teach Yourself Turkish and academic books about Turkish and Turkey. [1] [2] [3] [4] English scholar Geoffrey Lewis Born Geo
#2 David H. French (anthropologist)
David Heath French (May 21, 1918 – 1994) was an American anthropologist and linguist from Bend, Oregon . During his lifetime he was considered the foremost academic authority on the Chinookan people of the middle Columbia River, especially the Wasco-Wishram Chinooks of the Warm Springs Indian Reserv
Julio Florencio Cortázar [1] (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; American Spanish: [ˈxuljo korˈtasar] ( listen ) ) was an Argentine-French novelist , short story writer, essayist , and translator . Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom , Cortázar influenced an entire generation o
Aleksandar Stoyanov Teodorov-Balan ( Bulgarian : Александър Стоянов Теодоров-Балан; 27 October 1859 – 12 February 1959 ) was a Bulgarian linguist , historian and bibliographer . Monument to Balan Balan was born in the village of Kubey in the Russian Empire , today in Odessa Oblast , Ukraine , to a B
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish -born writer and poet ; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore . This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards . ( August 2019 ) Spanish writer of Catalan and Pue
#6 Kai Donner
Karl (Kai) Reinhold Donner (1 April 1888 in Helsinki – 12 February 1935) was a Finnish linguist, ethnographer and politician . He carried out expeditions to the Ugric and Samodeic peoples [1] in Siberia 1911 – 1914 and was docent of Uralic languages at the University of Helsinki from 1924. He was, a
#7 Zhu Wenxiong
Zhu Wenxiong ( Chinese : 朱文熊 ) was a Chinese linguist and scholar of the early 20th century. He is known books such as New Jiangsu letters ( Jiangsu xin zimu ) (1906), which was an influential works in modern Chinese linguistics. [1] [2] In regarding to language reform in early 20th century China, h
Juha Janhunen (born 12 February 1952 in Pori , Finland ) is a Finnish linguist whose wide interests include Uralic and Mongolic languages. Since 1994 he has been Professor in East Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki . He has done fieldwork on Samoyedic languages and on Khamnigan Mongol . [1]
Philip Bouquett or Bouquet (1669–1748) was a French linguist who became Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge .
#10 Yevgeny Bokaryov
Yevgeny Alekseyevich Bokaryov ( Russian : Евгений Алексеевич Бокарёв , pronounced [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɨj bəkɐˈrʲɵf] ; 25 February [ O.S. 12 February ] 1904 – 11 March 1971) was a Soviet linguist known among other things for his work on the Northeast Caucasian languages and his interlinguistics works; he
#11 Adam Kilgarriff
Adam Kilgarriff (12 February 1960 – 16 May 2015 [1] ) was a corpus linguist , lexicographer , and co-author of Sketch Engine . Adam Kilgarriff Kilgarriff in June 2014 Born ( 1960-02-12 ) 12 February 1960 Hastings , East Sussex , United Kingdom Died 16 May 2015 (2015-05-16) (aged 55) Brighton , Eas
#12 Gladys Guarisma
Gladys Guarisma (30 August 1938 – 12 February 2022) was a Venezuelan linguist. [1] She worked at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and was one of the pioneers of African linguistics. Venezuelan linguist (1938–2022) Gladys Guarisma Guarisma (right) in 1997 Born ( 1938-08-30 )
Herman Karl Haeberlin (11 September 1890, in Akron, Ohio – 12 February 1918) [1] was a German-American anthropologist and linguist, who, before his death at 26, was considered [ by whom? ] to be one of the most brilliant students of Franz Boas . His work mainly focused on the Salish people and Salis