langs: 17 июня [ru] / june 17 [en] / 17. juni [de] / 17 juin [fr] / 17 giugno [it] / 17 de junio [es]
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The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language . His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illiterate until the creation of his syllabary. [3] He first experimented with logograms , but his system l
The Javanese script (natively known as Aksara Jawa , Hanacaraka , Carakan , and Dentawyanjana ) [1] is one of Indonesia 's traditional scripts developed on the island of Java. The script is primarily used to write the Javanese language , but in the course of its development has also been used to wri
The Berber languages , also known as the Amazigh languages [1] ( / ˌ æ m ə ˈ z iː k / AM -ə- ZEEK ; Berber name: Tamaziɣt , Tamazight , Thamazight ; Neo-Tifinagh : ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ , Tuareg Tifinagh : ⵜⵎⵣⵗⵜ , pronounced [tæmæˈzɪɣt, θæmæˈzɪɣθ] ), are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family . They compr
Neapolitan ( autonym : ('o n)napulitano [(o n)napuliˈtɑːnə] ; Italian : napoletano ) is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian group spoken across much of mainland Southern Italy , except for southern Calabria and southern Apulia , [2] [3] [4] and spoken in a small part of central Italy (the prov
#1 Ahmed Shawqi
Ahmed Shawqi (also written Chawki ; Arabic : أحمد شوقي , ALA-LC : Aḥmad Shawqī , Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʔæħmæd ˈʃæwʔi] ; Adyghe : Ахьмэд-Щэукъи ; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets ( Arabic : أمير الشعراء Amīr al-Shu‘arā’ ), was an Arabic poet laureate , to the Arabic literary tra
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
Henning John Bergenholtz [1] (born 26 August 1944) is a Danish linguist, who is head of Center for Lexicography at Aarhus School of Business in Denmark . Professor Bergenholtz has contributed to lexicography as a science with publications on theoretical lexicography as well as several printed and el
Gabriel Manessy (March 28, 1923 – June 17, 1996) was a French linguist who worked on Niger-Congo languages , especially the Gur languages . French linguist Gabriel Manessy Born ( 1923-03-28 ) 28 March 1923 France Died June 17, 1996 (1996-06-17) (aged 73) Nationality French Occupation Linguist Acad
Terence Croft Mitchell (17 June 1929 – 21 April 2019) was a British archaeologist, scholar and curator. He was Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum from 1985 to 1989. He specialised in West Semitic languages , Near Eastern archaeology , and also took an interest in Biblical ma
Guðrún Kvaran (born 1943) is a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland , and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies . Icelandic academic This is an Icelandic name . The last name is a family name , but this person is referred
#7 Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma ) is an American poet , essayist, fiction writer, translator , and a member of the New York School . Great Balls of Fire , Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award . [1] In 2018, he w
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
#9 Johannes Hendricus van der Palm
Johannes Hendricus [1] van der Palm (17 July 1763 – 8 September 1840) was a Dutch Assyriologist , linguist , professor of (i) oriental languages and Hebrew antiquities and (ii) sacred poetry and rhetoric at Leiden University , educationist , theologian , Dutch Reformed Church minister , Bible transl
#10 Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [ OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson , was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic , biographer, editor and lexicographer . He was a devout Anglican , [1] and a committed Tory . T
#11 Migjeni
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ( Albanian pronunciation: [miˈɫoʃ ɟɛˈrɟ niˈkoɫa] ; 13 October 1911 – 26 August 1938), commonly known by the acronym pen name Migjeni , was an Albanian poet and writer, considered one of the most important of the 20th century. After his death, he was recognized as one of
Washington Matthews (June 17, 1843 – March 2, 1905) was a surgeon in the United States Army , ethnographer , and linguist known for his studies of Native American peoples, especially the Navajo . [1] United States Army ethnographer and linguist (1843–1905) Washington Matthews Photo credit: National
#13 Louis Alibert
Adrien Louis Marie Alibert , known as Louis Alibert ( Loís Alibèrt in Occitan ; 1884–1959) was a French linguist, born on October 12, 1884 in Bram in the Aude and died on April 16, 1959 in Montpellier. He specialized in Occitan and Languedocien . He is also the initiator of the classical standard of
Ronald P. Schaefer (born June 17, 1949), also known as Ron Schaefer is an American academic, English professor, and linguist. He is the first person "to devise a written version of a language called Emai", [1] a language reported in 1997 to be spoken by about 30,000 Emai people in Edo State of Niger
Michael Arthur Branch , CMG (24 March 1940, Shrewsbury , England — 17 June 2019, Langley, Kent , England [1] ) was a British linguist and academic administrator. British linguist and academic administrator (1940–2019) For other people named Michael Branch, see Michael Branch (disambiguation) . Micha
John Rupert Firth (June 17, 1890 in Keighley , Yorkshire – December 14, 1960 in Lindfield , West Sussex ), commonly known as J. R. Firth , was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the 1950s. [1] OBE John Rupert Firth Born ( 1890-06-17 ) June 17, 1890 Keighley , York
Henri-Alexandre Junod (17 June 1863 Saint-Martin , Val-de-Ruz – 22 April 1934 Geneva ) was a Swiss-born South African missionary, ethnographer, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist, stationed for much of his career at Shiluvane Mission Station outside Tzaneen in Limpopo Province . He received an
Alexei Alexandrovich Shakhmatov ( Russian : Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Ша́хматов , 17 June [ O.S. 5 June ] 1864 – 16 August 1920) was a Russian Imperial philologist and historian credited with laying foundations for the science of textology . [1] Shakhmatov held the title of Doctor of Russian langu
#19 Ferenc Kazinczy
Ferenc Kazinczy (in older English: Francis Kazinczy , [1] October 27, 1759 – August 23, 1831) was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist , an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century. [2] Today his name is connected with the extensiv
#20 Grażyna Vetulani
Grażyna Małgorzata Vetulani née Świerczyńska (born 15 March 1956) is a Polish philologist and linguist, professor of the humanities, professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń . Polish philologist Grażyna Małgorzata Vetulani Vetulani in 2019