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Ziad Fazah

1954 - Today

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Ziad Youssef Fazah (Arabic: زياد فصاح; born 10 June 1954) is a Liberian-born Lebanese alleged polyglot. Fazah has claimed to speak 59 languages and maintains that he has proved this in several public appearances in which he supposedly communicated with native speakers of a large number of foreign languages. Fazah spoke Arabic at home and learned French and English in school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ziad Fazah has received more than 323,608 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ziad Fazah is the 167th most popular linguist (up from 2,116th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Liberia (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Liberian Linguist.

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  • 320k

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  • 44.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Ziad Fazah ranks 167 out of 161. Before him are Lev Shcherba, Henry Liddell, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Viktor Vinogradov, John Rupert Firth, and Sergei Starostin. After him are Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Jacob Wackernagel, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Ivan Kuratov, Alexander Melville Bell, and Takekazu Asaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ziad Fazah ranks 383. Before him are Guy Gavriel Kay, Caroline Cossey, Uli Stein, Adrie Koster, Leonard Mlodinow, and Michael Shermer. After him are Michael Badalucco, Balázs Taróczy, Boro Primorac, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, Rick Warren, and Corbin Bernsen.

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In Liberia

Among people born in Liberia, Ziad Fazah ranks 13 out of 20. Before him are William Tubman (1895), Charles D. B. King (1875), Amos Sawyer (1945), Moses Blah (1947), Gyude Bryant (1949), and Edwin Barclay (1882). After him are Joseph Boakai (1944), Ola John (1992), Christopher Wreh (1975), Sekou Oliseh (1990), Collins John (1985), and Alex Nimely (1991).

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Among LINGUISTS In Liberia

Among linguists born in Liberia, Ziad Fazah ranks 1. 

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