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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist and slavist (1845-1929)

Sibawayh
Sibawayh ( (also pronounced in many modern dialects) ; ' ; ), whose full name is Abu Bishr Amr ibn Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Basri (, '), was a Persian leading grammarian of Basra and author of the Third book on Arabic grammar. His famous unnamed work, referred to as Al-Kitāb, or "The Book", is a five-volume seminal discussion of the Arabic language.

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
Iraqi lexicographer, philologist and poet (718 – 786 CE)
Pavle Ivić
Serbian linguist (1924–1999)
Bruce Hayes
American linguist
A. E. Meeussen
Belgian linguist and africanist (1912-1978)
Zumo Zhou
Chinese linguist