The Most Famous
LINGUISTS from Pakistan
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Linguists of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Linguists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pāṇini (-500 - -460)
With an HPI of 71.11, Pāṇini is the most famous Pakistani Linguist. His biography has been translated into 67 different languages on wikipedia.
Pāṇini (; Sanskrit: पाणिनि, pāṇini) was a Sanskrit grammarian, logician, philologist, and revered scholar in ancient India during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th century BCE. The historical facts of his life are unknown, except only what can be inferred from his works, and legends recorded long after. His most notable work, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit. His work formally codified Classical Sanskrit as a refined and standardized language, making use of a technical metalanguage consisting of a syntax, morphology, and lexicon, organised according to a series of meta-rules. Since the exposure of European scholars to his Aṣṭādhyāyī in the nineteenth century, Pāṇini has been considered the "first descriptive linguist", and even labelled as "the father of linguistics". His approach to grammar influenced such foundational linguists as Ferdinand de Saussure and Leonard Bloomfield.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Pakistani linguists born between 500 BC and 500 BC. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Pakistani linguists include Pāṇini.
