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 - )
With an HPI of 66.12, Pāṇini is the most famous Pakistani Linguist. His biography has been translated into 64 different languages on wikipedia.
Pāṇini (Sanskrit: पाणिनि, pronounced [paːɳin̪i]) was a logician, Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India, variously dated between the 6th and 4th century BCE. Since the discovery and publication of his work Aṣṭādhyāyī by European scholars 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as linguists born between 500 BC and 500 BC. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased linguists include Pāṇini.
