Michael Krauss

male, 75 years old
Linguistics writer, Columbia University alumni, Harvard University alumni, University of Chicago alumni, Linguistics educator, Na-Dené…Na-Dené languages, endangeredlanguages
Michael E. Krauss is a linguist who has worked extensively on the Na-Dené language family, especially on proto-Athabaskan, pre-proto-Athabaskan, t...
Peter Ladefoged

Peter Ladefoged

male, deceased (2006)
death by stroke, bombay, Peter Nielsen Ladefoged, The Sounds of the World's Languages, English-American, endangeredlanguages…African languages, West African Languages
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered...

Douglas Whalen

male
Yale University, Douglas H. Whalen, Endangered language, Endangered Language Fund, endangeredlanguages, cognitive neuroscience…Founder, Endangered Language Fund
Douglas H. Whalen is an American linguist who is presently a program officer at the National Science Foundation where he is affiliated with the...
Jørgen Rischel

Jørgen Rischel

male, deceased (2007)
linguistics, Order of the Dannebrog, Danish, lexicography, danish language, Greenlandic…endangeredlanguages, Mon-Khmer languages
Jørgen Rischel was a Danish linguist who has worked extensively with different subjects in linguistics especially phonetics and phonology, l...

Patwin

male
pomo, Valley Miwok, Coast Miwok, Putah Creek, Lake Miwok, Yuki tribe…Wintuan languages, endangeredlanguages
The Patwin (also Patween, Southern Wintu) are a Wintun people native to the area of Northern California. The Patwin were a southern branch of the...