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Singapore Sign Language , or SgSL , is the native sign language used by the deaf and hard of hearing in Singapore , developed over six decades since the setting up of the first school for the Deaf in 1954. [2] Since Singapore's independence in 1965, the Singapore deaf community has had to adapt to m
#2 Sauk people
The Sauk or Sac are a group of Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group, who lived primarily in the region of what is now Green Bay, Wisconsin , when first encountered by the French in 1667. Their autonym is oθaakiiwaki , and their exonym is Ozaagii(-wag) in Ojibwe . The latter name w
#1 Willy Dols
Willy Dols ( Sittard , 21 March 1911 – Schwesing , 5 November 1944) was a Dutch linguist , dialectologist and phonologist . He was the first one to make a profound study of the diphthongization which is typical for the Sittard dialect , in his dissertation which was not published until nine years af
#2 Elise Riesel
Elise Riesel (born Elise Grün ) or also Eliza Genrichovna Rizel (born 12 October 1906 in Vienna ; died 28 September 1989 in Moscow ), was an Austrian linguist . [1] This article is an orphan , as no other articles link to it . Please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the Find
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
Shigeaki Sugeta ( Yamaguchi-Ken , born 2 June 1933 ) is a Japanese linguist . Emeritus professor of General, Romance and Italian Linguistics at the University of Waseda , and now advisor to the Institute of Italian Studies of the same university, [1] is the author of the first ever Sardinian - Japan
Jooseppi Julius (J. J.) Mikkola (July 6, 1866, Ylöjärvi – September 28, 1946, Helsinki ), was Finnish linguist and professor. Mikkola is regarded as one of the most important Finnish linguists of Slavic languages of his era. J.J. Mikkola as he appeared near the end of his life.
#6 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
#7 Mei Shaowu
Mei Shaowu ( simplified Chinese : 梅绍武 ; traditional Chinese : 梅紹武 ; pinyin : Méi Shàowǔ ; 22 December 1928 – 28 September 2005) was a Chinese translator, author and scholar who was honorary president of the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall ( 梅兰芳纪念馆 ) and president of the Mei Lanfang Literature and Art Rese
#8 James Mooney
James Mooney (February 10, 1861 – December 22, 1921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee . Known as "The Indian Man", [1] he conducted major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as of tribes on the Great Plains . [2] He did ethnographic studies of the Ghos
#9 William Jones (philologist)
Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist , a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal , and a scholar of ancient India , particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and
#10 Leanne Hinton
Leanne Hinton (born 28 September 1941) is an American linguist and emerita professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley . Professor of linguistics Leanne Hinton speaking at an Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival conference, 2008
#11 John Dos Passos
John Roderigo Dos Passos ( / d ɒ s ˈ p æ s ə s , - s ɒ s / ; [1] [2] January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy . American novelist (1896–1970) This article uses bare URLs , which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot . ( August 2022 )
#12 Ernst Wigforss
Ernst Johannes Wigforss (24 January 1881 – 2 January 1977) was a Swedish politician and linguist (dialectologist), mostly known as a prominent member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and Swedish Minister of Finance. Wigforss became one of the main theoreticians in the development of the Swedi
#13 Huang Ai
Huang Ai ( simplified Chinese : 黄爱 ; traditional Chinese : 黃愛 ; pinyin : Huáng Aì ; born 1919 – September 28, 2008) better known by his pen name Huang Yushi ( 黄雨石 ; 黃雨石 ; Huáng Yǔshí ), was a Chinese translator. [1] He is among the first few in China who translated the works of Charles Dickens 's in
Samuel Noah Kramer (September 28, 1897 – November 26, 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists , an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language . After high school, he attended Temple University, before Dropsie and Penn , both in Philadelphia . Among scholars, his work is considered
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 .
#16 Valentin Haüy
Valentin Haüy (pronounced [aɥi] ; 13 November 1745 – 19 March 1822) was the founder, in 1785, [1] [2] of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris (now Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles , or the National Institute for the Young Blind , INJA). In 1819, Louis Braille e
#17 Olav Beito
Olav Toreson Beito (March 30, 1901 – September 28, 1989) was a Norwegian linguist and professor of Nordic studies at the University of Oslo . Norwegian linguist Beito was born in Øystre Slidre , [1] the son of the farmer Thore Andreas Beito (1849–1937) and Marit Beito (1858–1932). [2] He married Mar
#18 Andrew Gonzalez
Brother Andrew Benjamin Gonzalez, F.S.C. (29 February 1940 – 29 January 2006) was a Filipino linguist , writer, educator , and a De La Salle Brother . He served as president of De La Salle University from 1979 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he served as Secretary of the Department
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (10 July 1682 – 23 February 1719) was a member of the Lutheran clergy and the first Pietist missionary to India . This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This
#20 Simon Leys
Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys , was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic , translator, art historian, sinologist , and university professor, who lived in Australia from 1970. His work particularly focused on the pol