20th-century linguists

Linguist, language revivalist, professor, author, hyperpolyglot

German-American anthropologist

Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)

Estonian philologist and Fennophile (1880–1973)

Lithuanian-French linguist (1917-1992)

Palestinian politician (born 1958)

Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900–1992)

Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)

Latvian-American linguist (1923-2018)

Chinese-American linguist and educator (1892–1982)

writer and politician (1885-1938)

linguist (1887-1970)

Algerian Amazigh linguist and writer (1917–1989)

Crimean Tatar intellectual (1893–1937)

Latvian writer and folklorist (1835–1923)

British linguist

Austrian-American scientist-explorer (1884-1962)

terminologist and industrialist (1898–1977)

Turkish linguist (1895–1979)

Hungarian linguist (1913–1996)

Thai author (1930-1966)

American linguist (1926–1967)

Ukrainian writer, Slavist philologist, literary historian, critic, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1908-2002)

Dutch politician (1906-1997)

Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist. (1947–2004)

Belgian grammarian (1895–1980)

Mexican poet, writer and politician (1906-2008)

Bosnian linguist

Cape Verdean writer (1907–1989)

Serbian linguist (1924–1999)

Belgian translator and linguist (1945-1996)

Nogai Tatar, poet

Peruvian politician and linguist (1925–2022)

African philosopher (1912-1981)

Iranian-Swedish academic

one of the founders of modern Korean linguistics (1876-1914)

Portuguese writer (1880-1945)

Estonian linguist (1938–2022)

Portuguese linguist (1925–1991)

Slovenian linguist (1890–1952)

Russian Orientalist (1898–1954)

Jewish Orientalist

Turkish linguist and writer (1919–2007)

Belarusian historian (1891–1976)

Norwegian linguist, professor, university president (1884–1963)

Turkish linguist and writer (1900–1964)

French linguist and French resistance fighter (1908-1942)

Austrian linguist (1891–1989)

Chinese academic

Lithuanian linguist (1885–1969)

Montenegrin linguist (1935–2007)

Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer

Saami politician

Soviet linguist (1887-1957)

Belgian academic (1961–2021)

Finnish linguist

Lithuanian linguist

Slovene linguist and dialectologist

Hawaiian activist

Brazilian university professor (1925-2004)