List of Jewish American linguists

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This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher ^{[1] [2]}
• Cyrus Gordon, Semiticist, held ancient Crete Minoan was Northwest Semitic ^[3]
• Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages ^[4]
• Roman Jakobson, one of the founders of modern phonology (converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1975) ^[5]
• Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist ^[6]
• Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology" ^[7]
• William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015) ^[8]
• María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist ^[9]
• Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist ^[10]
• Isaac Nordheimer, Hebrew and Syriac scholar and philologist ^[11]
• Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics ^[12]
• Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf ^[13]
• Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics ^[14]

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4. "Joseph H. Greenberg AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
5. "Roman Jakobson". YIVO Institute For Jewish Research.
6. "Jay Jasanoff". 2005 LSA Institute.
7. "Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Dies; Was Leading Authority on Sumer". New York Times.
8. "William Labov receives the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics from the British Academy". Department of Linguistics. University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
9. "A Brief History of M. R. Lida de Malkiel" (PDF). University of Berkeley.
10. "Guide to the Yakov Malkiel Papers, 1882-1998, bulk 1942-1992". Online Archive of California.
11. Goldman, Shalom (Winter 1990–1991). "Isaac Nordheimer (1809–1842): 'An Israelite Truly in Whom There Was No Guile'". American Jewish History. 80 (2). Johns Hopkins University Press: 213–229. JSTOR   23884424.
12. "Edward Sapir AMERICAN LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
13. "Dan I. Slobin". Berkeley Psychology.
14. "DEBORAH TANNEN, PHD". Georgetown University Medical Center.