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Daniel Jones

1881 - 1967

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Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Jones has received more than 86,243 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Daniel Jones is the 117th most popular linguist (down from 108th in 2019), the 2,681st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,661st in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 86k

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  • 49.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Daniel Jones ranks 117 out of 161Before him are Hrachia Acharian, George Kingsley Zipf, Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, Jules Gilliéron, and Arie de Jong. After him are George Abraham Grierson, John Florio, Aleksander Brückner, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Jan de Vries, and William Dwight Whitney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Daniel Jones ranks 122Before him are Harry Hillman, Henri Dentz, Ken McArthur, Rudolf Ramek, Aleksandr Bogomolets, and Kristian Prestrud. After him are Vilhelm Buhl, Curt Haase, María Blanchard, Sergey Merkurov, Karl Staaf, and Henry Maitland Wilson. Among people deceased in 1967, Daniel Jones ranks 161Before him are Varian Fry, Antonio Riberi, Zhou Zuoren, Reginald Punnett, Morris Swadesh, and Henry Luce. After him are Arthur Ransome, Georges Berger, Oskar Maria Graf, Vlastimil Kopecký, George S. Robertson, and Lajos Kassák.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Daniel Jones ranks 2,681 out of 7,765Before him are Ben Whishaw (1980), Billy Boyd (1968), Ray Davies (1944), Storm Thorgerson (1944), Hilary Mantel (1952), and Gerald of Wales (1146). After him are James Paget (1814), Colin Bell (1946), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), Joely Richardson (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), and George Dawe (1781).

Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Daniel Jones ranks 5Before him are William Jones (1746), Michael Halliday (1925), Robert Morrison (1782), and John Chadwick (1920). After him are John Florio (1553), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), James Legge (1815), John Lyons (1932), John Eliot (1604), and Henry Liddell (1811).