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Lyle Campbell

1942 - Today

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Lyle Richard Campbell (born October 22, 1942) is an American scholar and linguist known for his studies of indigenous American languages, especially those of Central America, and on historical linguistics in general. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lyle Campbell has received more than 83,951 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lyle Campbell is the 198th most popular linguist (down from 176th in 2019), the 10,680th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,866th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Linguist.

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  • 84k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Lyle Campbell ranks 198 out of 214. Before him are Sture Allén, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Milena Hübschmannová, Alice Kober, Georg Bühler, and Robert Blust. After him are Dmitry Ushakov, Bo Ralph, Rogier Blokland, Sophus Bugge, Daniel Everett, and Johan Ludvig Heiberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Lyle Campbell ranks 639. Before him are Custódio Pinto, Pedro Araya Toro, Jürgen Kissner, Eugène Camara, Seiji Aochi, and Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi. After him are Mirja Lehtonen, Dennis Hastert, Dave Cutler, Harry Chapin, Richard D. Wolff, and Karen Hantze Susman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lyle Campbell ranks 10,680 out of 20,380. Before him are Irwin I. Shapiro (1929), Kay Lenz (1953), John DiMaggio (1968), Dave Coulier (1959), Eric Mabius (1971), and Brewster H. Shaw (1945). After him are Adrian Grenier (1976), Ron Underwood (1953), Tommy Kono (1930), Arthur Fiedler (1894), Noname Jane (1977), and Kathy Griffin (1960).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Lyle Campbell ranks 21. Before him are Charles F. Hockett (1916), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), George Perkins Marsh (1801), Dell Hymes (1927), Alice Kober (1906), and Robert Blust (1940). After him are Daniel Everett (1951), Einar Haugen (1906), and Mary Haas (1910).

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