langs: 30 октября [ru] / october 30 [en] / 30. oktober [de] / 30 octobre [fr] / 30 ottobre [it] / 30 de octubre [es]
days: october 27 / october 28 / october 29 / october 30 / october 31 / november 1 / november 2
#1 Ithkuil
Ithkuil (Ithkuil: Iţkuîl ) is an experimental constructed language created by John Quijada. [1] It is designed to express more profound levels of human cognition briefly yet overtly and clearly, particularly about human categorization. It is a cross between a priori philosophical and a logical langu
Filipino Sign Language (FSL) or Philippine Sign Language ( Filipino : Wikang pasenyas ng mga Pilipino ), [2] is a sign language originating in the Philippines. Like other sign languages , FSL is a unique language with its own grammar , syntax and morphology ; it is neither based on nor resembles Fil
Lakota ( Lakȟótiyapi [la.ˈkˣɔ.tɪ.ja.pɪ] ), also referred to as Lakhota , Teton or Teton Sioux , is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language , especially Western Dakota , and is one of the three maj
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
Radoslav Nenadál (30 October 1929 – 17 July 2018) was a Czech writer and translator of English-language literature. Czech writer and translator This article needs additional citations for verification . ( July 2018 ) Radoslav Nenadál Born ( 1929-10-30 ) 30 October 1929 Šumperk , Czechoslovakia Died
#3 Wu Zhihui
Wu Jingheng ( Chinese : 吳敬恆 ), commonly known by his courtesy name Wu Zhihui (Woo Chih-hui, Chinese : 吳稚暉 ; 1865–1953), also known as Wu Shi-Fee , [1] was a Chinese linguist and philosopher who was the chairman of the 1912 – 13 Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation that created Zhuyin (base
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( / ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / ; [2] Spanish: [ˈboɾxes] ( listen ) ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer , essayist , poet , and translator , as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known boo
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer , journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey . He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish " rotten boroughs ", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing pov
Aminur Rahman (born 30 October 1966) is a modern Bangladeshi poet who writes in Bengali . He is considered to be a Rabindranath Tagore follower. [1] [2] He is also engaged in literary translation (published 10 collections of poetry in translations) and literary criticism. Aminur Rahman Rahman (2012)
Andrey Konstantinovich Korsakov ( Russian : Андрей Константинович Корсаков , Ukrainian : Андрій Костянтинович Корсаков ; 30 October 1916 – 2007) was an eminent Russian and Ukrainian linguist and language philosopher [1] who specialised in the grammar of the English language and is considered a fathe
Claude Lévi-Strauss ( / k l ɔː d ˈ l eɪ v i ˈ s t r aʊ s / , [2] French: [klod levi stʁos] ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [3] [4] [5] was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology . [6] He held
#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
Xia Yan ( Chinese : 夏衍 ; pinyin : Xià Yǎn ; Wade–Giles : Hsia Yen ; 30 October 1900 – 6 February 1995) was a Chinese playwright and screenwriter, [1] and China 's Deputy Minister of Culture between 1954 and 1965. [2] Chinese playwright and screenwriter This article needs additional citations for ver
#11 Irene Heim
Irene Roswitha Heim (born in Munich , Germany, on October 30, 1954) is a linguist and a leading specialist in semantics . [1] She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and UCLA before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, where she is Professor Emerita of Lingui
#12 Jacob L. Mey
Jacob Louis Mey (born 30 October 1926, in Amsterdam ) is a professor of linguistics , specializing in pragmatics . He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark , from which he retired in 1996. [1] [2] Linguist and author Jaco
#13 Oleh Lysheha
Oleh Lysheha ( Ukrainian : Олег Лишега ; 30 October 1949 – 17 December 2014 [1] ) was a Ukrainian poet , playwright , translator and intellectual . Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participation in an "unofficial" literary circle, Lviv Bohe
#14 Luca Serianni
Luca Serianni ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈluːka seˈrjanni] ; 30 October 1947 – 21 July 2022) [1] was an Italian linguist and philologist . Italian linguist and philologist (1947–2022)
#15 Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky [lower-alpha 1] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist , philosopher, cognitive scientist , historical essayist, [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] social critic , and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [lower-alpha 4] Chomsky is also a
#16 George Nicholl
George Frederick Nicholl (5 November 1832 [1] – 28 July 1913) was a British academic, who held the position of Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1878 until 1909.
#17 Phoolchand Gupta
Phoolchand Gupta (born 30 October 1958) is an Indian Hindi and Gujarati language poet, writer and translator. He hails from Himmatnagar, Gujarat , India. He made significant contributions to the Gujarati Dalit literature . Hindi Sahitya Akademi of state awarded him in 2013 for his book Khwabkhwahon
#18 Aravind Joshi
Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania . Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics an
Stephen Owen (born October 30, 1946) is an American sinologist specializing in Chinese literature , particularly Tang dynasty poetry and comparative poetics. He taught Chinese literature and comparative literature at Harvard University and is James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus; becom
#20 Ricardo Carballo
Ricardo Carballo Calero [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] ( Ferrol , 1910 – Santiago de Compostela , 1990), self-styled as Ricardo Carvalho Calero from 1981 onward, [9] [10] [11] [12] was a Spanish philologist , academic and writer. He was the first Professor of Galician Language and Literature at the