langs: 16 ноября [ru] / november 16 [en] / 16. november [de] / 16 novembre [fr] / 16 novembre [it] / 16 de noviembre [es]
days: november 13 / november 14 / november 15 / november 16 / november 17 / november 18 / november 19
#1 Yañalif
Jaꞑalif , Yangalif or Yañalif ( Tatar : jaꞑa əlifba/yaña älifba → jaꞑalif/yañalif, [jɑŋɑˈlif] , Cyrillic : Яңалиф, "new alphabet") is the first Latin alphabet used during the latinisation in the Soviet Union in the 1930s for the Turkic languages . It replaced the Yaña imlâ Arabic script -based alpha
Tulu ( Tulu Bāse ) [lower-alpha 2] is a [5] Dravidian language [6] whose speakers are concentrated in Dakshina Kannada and the southern part of Udupi of Karnataka in south-western India [7] and in the northern part of the Kasaragod district of Kerala . The native speakers of Tulu are referred to as
Icelandic ( / aɪ s ˈ l æ n d ɪ k / ( listen ) ; Icelandic: íslenska pronounced [ˈis.tl̥ɛn.ska] ( listen ) ) is a North Germanic language spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland , where it is the national language. [1] As a West Scandinavian language , it is most c
Michael Smith (1942-2014) was an Irish poet, author and translator . A member of Aosdána , the Irish National Academy of Artists, Michael Smith was the first Writer in-Residence to be appointed by University College, Dublin and was an Honorary Fellow of UCD. He was a poet who gave a lifetime of serv
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
#3 Giuseppe Valentini (albanologist)
Giuseppe Valentini ( Albanian : Zef Valentini ; July 1900 - 16 November 1979) was an Italian priest and albanologist of the 20th century. Italian albanologist For other uses, see Valentini (disambiguation) .
Jean Gagnepain (November 16, 1923 – January 3, 2006) was a French linguist and anthropologist . French linguist and anthropologist
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok ( Russian : Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к , IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok] ( listen ) ; 28 November [ O.S. 16 November ] 1880 – 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. Russian poet Al
Franz Anton Schiefner (June 18, 1817 – November 16, 1879) was a Baltic German linguist and tibetologist . Franz Anton von Schiefner. Schiefner was born to a German -speaking family in Reval (Tallinn), Estonia , then part of Russian Empire . His father was a merchant who had emigrated from Bohemia .
Harold Edward Palmer , usually just Harold E. Palmer (6 March 1877 – 16 November 1949), was an English linguist , phonetician and pioneer in the field of teaching English as a second language . [1] Especially he dedicated himself to Oral Method . He stayed in Japan for 14 years and reformed its Engl
Mildred Aldrich was an American journalist , editor , writer and translator . She spent her early career as a journalist and editor in Boston before moving to Paris , where she continued working as a foreign correspondent and translator. [1] In 1914, shortly before the start of World War I , she ret
#9 Eric P. Hamp
Eric Pratt Hamp (November 16, 1920 – February 17, 2019) was an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics , with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian . Unlike many Indo-Europeanists, who work entirely on the basis of written materials, he
#10 Fernand Carton
Fernand Carton (4 September 1921 – 16 November 2019) was a French linguist who specialized in Picardic dialects. [1] French linguist (1921–2019) Fernand Carton Born ( 1921-09-04 ) 4 September 1921 Roubaix , France Died 16 November 2019 (2019-11-16) (aged 98) Malzéville , France Academic background
#11 Adee Dodge
Adee Dodge (1912–1992) [2] or Hashke-yil-e-dale , was a Navajo artist, linguist , and Navajo code talker . [3] [4] He was best known for his paintings of horses, and documenting other aspects of Navajo culture in his paintings. Dodge served in the United States military in the South Pacific during W
#12 T. F. O'Rahilly
Thomas Francis O'Rahilly ( Irish : Tomás Ó Rathile ; 11 November 1882 – 16 November 1953) [1] was an Irish scholar of the Celtic languages , particularly in the fields of historical linguistics and Irish dialects . He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and died in Dublin in 1953. He is the crea
James Vincent Murphy (7 July 1880 – 4 July 1946) was an Irish translator, writer, lecturer and journalist, who published one of the first complete English translations of Mein Kampf in 1939. [1] James Vincent Murphy Born ( 1880-07-07 ) 7 July 1880 Innishannon (Knockavilla) Died 5 July 1946 (1946-07-
Gretchen McCulloch ( / m ə ˈ k ʌ l ə k / ) [1] is a Canadian linguist . On her blog, as well as her podcast Lingthusiasm (which she cohosts with Lauren Gawne ) she offers linguistic analysis of online communication such as internet memes , emoji and instant messaging . She writes regularly for Wired