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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. 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 130,751 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Morris Swadesh is the 113th most popular linguist (down from 90th in 2019), the 4,769th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,953rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 130k

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  • 49.83

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Morris Swadesh ranks 113 out of 161Before him are Stephen Krashen, Julius Pokorny, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Morris Halle, Hrachia Acharian, and George Kingsley Zipf. After him are Anne Dacier, Jules Gilliéron, Arie de Jong, Daniel Jones, George Abraham Grierson, and John Florio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Morris Swadesh ranks 185Before him are John Haigh, C. N. Annadurai, Endel Puusepp, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Henryk Jabłoński. After him are Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Pietro Arcari, Nikola Vaptsarov, Spyros Markezinis, Arnold Badjou, and Fritz Buchloh. Among people deceased in 1967, Morris Swadesh ranks 159Before him are Edward Chamberlin, Siegfried Sassoon, Varian Fry, Antonio Riberi, Zhou Zuoren, and Reginald Punnett. After him are Henry Luce, Daniel Jones, Arthur Ransome, Georges Berger, Oskar Maria Graf, and Vlastimil Kopecký.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Morris Swadesh ranks 4,769 out of 18,182Before him are Carl Spaatz (1891), Steven Zaillian (1953), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Big Joe Turner (1911), Muse Watson (1948), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902). After him are Jerry Hall (1956), Joe Dallesandro (1948), Elvin Hayes (1945), Demi Lovato (1992), Eugene Polley (1915), and Gilbert Baker (1951).

Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Morris Swadesh ranks 12Before him are Joseph Greenberg (1915), William Labov (1927), Noah Webster (1758), Joshua Fishman (1926), Stephen Krashen (1941), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902). After him are William Dwight Whitney (1827), Robert Blust (1940), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Alice Kober (1906), Dell Hymes (1927), and Daniel Everett (1951).