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William Dwight Whitney

1827 - 1894

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William Dwight Whitney (February 9, 1827 – June 7, 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Dwight Whitney has received more than 82,897 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). William Dwight Whitney is the 146th most popular linguist (down from 123rd in 2019), the 6,442nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,579th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 83k

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  • 55.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, William Dwight Whitney ranks 146 out of 214. Before him are William Stokoe, Heinrich Schmid, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Vladimir Toporov, and Friedrich von Adelung. After him are Zellig Harris, Gerhard Rohlfs, Sylvain Lévi, Alexander Veselovsky, Mary Boyce, and Kazimieras Būga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, William Dwight Whitney ranks 52. Before him are Nikolay Beketov, Jacques-Louis Soret, Petko Slaveykov, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, and Lydia Becker. After him are Ramón Emeterio Betances, Karl Maximovich, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Lev Lagorio, Charles John Andersson, and Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque. Among people deceased in 1894, William Dwight Whitney ranks 69. Before him are Illarion Pryanishnikov, Emilio Arrieta, Karl von Blaas, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, Verney Lovett Cameron, and Brian Houghton Hodgson. After him are Edmond Frémy, Boston Corbett, Joseph Schröter, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, George Romanes, and Francisco Asenjo Barbieri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Dwight Whitney ranks 6,442 out of 20,380. Before him are Audrey Munson (1891), Walt Frazier (1945), Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883), Virginia Hall (1906), Roscoe Lockwood (1875), and Aaron Sorkin (1961). After him are Earl Tupper (1907), Preston Sturges (1898), Charles Stark Draper (1901), Robert Preston (1918), James Jamerson (1936), and Ruth Orkin (1921).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, William Dwight Whitney ranks 14. Before him are Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), and William Stokoe (1919). After him are Charles F. Hockett (1916), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), George Perkins Marsh (1801), Dell Hymes (1927), Alice Kober (1906), and Robert Blust (1940).

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