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Kazimieras Būga

1879 - 1924

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Kazimieras Būga (Lithuanian pronunciation: [kɐˈzʲɪˈmʲiərɐs buːˈɡɐ]; November 6, 1879 – December 2, 1924) was a Lithuanian linguist and philologist. He was a professor of linguistics, who mainly worked on the Lithuanian language. He was born at Pažiegė, near Dusetos, then part of the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazimieras Būga has received more than 20,333 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kazimieras Būga is the 152nd most popular linguist (down from 147th in 2019).

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  • 45.74

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Kazimieras Būga ranks 152 out of 161Before him are Jane Ellen Harrison, Gideon Toury, Friedrich von Adelung, James Legge, John Lyons, and Göran Malmqvist. After him are Martí de Riquer i Morera, Germà Colón, Hermann Hirt, John Eliot, Friedrich Kluge, and Andrey Zaliznyak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Kazimieras Būga ranks 174Before him are Annie Kenney, Alfred Swahn, Ernst Schultz, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, Johan Falkberget, and Richárd Weisz. After him are John Ireland, Henri Tauzin, Ángel Cabrera, Lewis Stone, Clyde Cessna, and Agnes Arber. Among people deceased in 1924, Kazimieras Būga ranks 100Before him are Herman Heijermans, Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, Hugo von Seeliger, Stefan Toshev, Teodor Teodorov, and William Hemsley. After him are Lin Shu, Vlastimil Tusar, Sándor Bródy, Lloyd Hildebrand, Maurice Prendergast, and Corrado Segre.

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