Marius Sala (September 8, 1932, Vașcău, Romania - August 19, 2018, Bucharest)[1] was a Romanian linguist, member of the Romanian Academy. His activity gained international academic recognition in the study of Romance languages.[2][3]

Professional activity

Marius Sala received his PhD. in Philology in 1967 with the thesis "The Phonetics and Phonology of Judeo-Spanish" at University of Bucharest. He started his work in 1953 as a researcher at Romanian Academy's Institute of Linguistics "Iorgu Iordan-Al.Rosetti", an institution he presided from 1994 until 2017. Along with being a full member of Romanian Academy (corresponding member from 1994 until 2001), he was also its vice-president from 2006 until 2014.[4] Other institutions he was corresponding member: Real Academia Española (1978), Instituto Mexicano de Cultura (1981), Academia Nacional de Letras from Uruguay (1994), and Academia Peruana de la Lengua (2004).[5]

From 1990 he was the president of the Romanian Branch of Latin Union.

He contributed to 11 articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.[6] and collaborated with Cambridge University Press in the study of Romance languages.[7]

Notable Awards

• National Order of Faithful Service, Commander (2000), later Grand Officer (2009)
• Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (2004)
• Order of the Crown - Belgium (2008)[8]

Selected works

• Contributions to the historic phonetics of the Romanian language, Bucharest, 1970;
• Phonétique et phonologie du judéo-espagnol de Bucarest, Hague, 1971;
• El léxico indígena del español de América. Apreciaciones sobre su vitalidad (collaborator) , Mexico, 1977;
• The encyclopedia of Romance languages, Bucharest, 1989;
• Languages in contact, Bucharest, 1997;
• From Latin to Romanian, Bucharest, 1998;
• May we introduce the Romanian Language to you? (collaborator), Bucharest, 2000;
• 101 cuvinte moștenite, împrumutate și create, Bucharest, 2010
• Dicționarul Limbii Române (editor-in-chief).

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