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Morris Swadesh

1909 - 1967

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Morris Swadesh (; January 22, 1909 – July 20, 1967) was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics, and developed his mature career at UNAM in Mexico. Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents. He completed bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Chicago, studying under Edward Sapir, and then followed Sapir to Yale University where he completed a Ph.D. in 1933. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morris Swadesh has received more than 142,398 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Morris Swadesh is the 87th most popular linguist (up from 113th in 2019), the 3,500th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,757th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 140k

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  • 53.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Morris Swadesh ranks 87 out of 214. Before him are Holger Pedersen, Leo Spitzer, Jan Mukařovský, Johannes Aavik, Vasili Eroshenko, and Alexander Gode. After him are Anne Dacier, Bernhard Karlgren, Albert Sechehaye, Adolf Erman, Stephen Krashen, and Gustaf John Ramstedt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Morris Swadesh ranks 146. Before him are David Riesman, Gerhard Gentzen, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, Olga Rubtsova, Karl Schäfer, and Jim Davis. After him are Luigi Villoresi, Georg Konrad Morgen, Aruna Asaf Ali, Anthony Mamo, Bert Patenaude, and Guillermo Gorostiza. Among people deceased in 1967, Morris Swadesh ranks 117. Before him are Isaac Deutscher, Eugen Fischer, Joseph Cardijn, Albert Lutuli, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, and Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder. After him are Varian Fry, Carl Sandburg, Richard Ruoff, Victor de Sabata, Enrico Dante, and Bob Anderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Morris Swadesh ranks 3,500 out of 20,380. Before him are Catherine Keener (1959), Walter Koenig (1936), Stone Cold Steve Austin (1964), Scotty Moore (1931), Howard Keel (1919), and Marc Jacobs (1963). After him are Timothée Chalamet (1995), Harold Robbins (1916), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Stephen Baldwin (1966), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), and Carl Bernstein (1944).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Morris Swadesh ranks 10. Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), Joseph Greenberg (1915), George Lakoff (1941), Joshua Fishman (1926), and William Labov (1927). After him are Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Charles F. Hockett (1916), and Kenneth Lee Pike (1912).

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