Language activists

Russian ethnographer and Udmurt language activist

Brazilian indigenous educator and activist

statement that Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are four varieties of a single pluricentric language

Soviet and Russian Kildin Sámi teacher, linguist, and politician (*1939)

project to protect endangered languages

Bulgarian encyclopedist (1818–1892)

Chuvash Russian philologist and literary critic

Estonian linguist (born 1969)

Mojave poet, writer and basketball player

Indian politician and language activist

Iranian-Azerbaijani national cultural activist

Russian linguist and politician (1938 – 2019)

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Chinese linguist and poet

Greek activist

Indian linguist

Russian language activist (1907–1977)

Austrian literary scholar, cultural historian, linguist and slavicist

Sorbian entrepreneur (1890 - 1941)

researcher and Wikimedian

Nigerian journalist

Indonesian journalist and politician

Nepalese academic

New Mexican Tewa language activist and linguist (1912–2006)

Canadian politician

American linguist (1910-2014)

Japanese Ainu activist

American linguist (1919-2013)

Indian script inventor

Livonian musician, music teacher, founder and artistic director of the Livonian folklore ensemble "Kāndla" (1910-1984)

Okinawan linguist

was a Lemko activist and teacher

Russian linguist

Dutch phonetician and linguist (1891 – 1973)

Tongan community leader in New Zealand (born c. 1949)

South African Jewish politician (1877–1946)

medieval Coptic text against Arabization

French Polynesian educator and advocate

Albanian writer (1906 – 2000)