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Joshua Fishman

1926 - 2015

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Joshua Fishman (Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman; July 18, 1926 – March 1, 2015) was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joshua Fishman is the 44th most popular linguist (up from 65th in 2019), the 2,018th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,797th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Joshua Fishman ranks 44 out of 214. Before him are Friedrich August Wolf, Michel Bréal, Vasily Radlov, Alexandre de Rhodes, Boris Kolker, and Joseph Greenberg. After him are André Martinet, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Louis de Beaufront, and Tuone Udaina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Joshua Fishman ranks 106. Before him are László Papp, Cloris Leachman, Kim Jong-pil, James Stirling, Alan Greenspan, and Gus Grissom. After him are Shohei Imamura, John Berger, Joachim Fest, Poul Anderson, Roger Corman, and Karl Richter. Among people deceased in 2015, Joshua Fishman ranks 81. Before him are Phil Taylor, Georges Wolinski, Robert Loggia, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rod Taylor, and Ben E. King. After him are Dettmar Cramer, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Cynthia Lennon, Ruth Rendell, Licio Gelli, and Jin Youzhi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joshua Fishman ranks 2,018 out of 20,380. Before him are Percy Spencer (1894), Henry Hathaway (1898), Gillian Anderson (1968), Roman Reigns (1985), Gus Grissom (1926), and Wes Studi (1947). After him are Wilton Daniel Gregory (1947), Venus Williams (1980), Dennis Rodman (1961), Joe Mantegna (1947), Beck (1970), and Macaulay Culkin (1980).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Joshua Fishman ranks 7. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), William James Sidis (1898), Noah Webster (1758), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), and Joseph Greenberg (1915). After him are William Labov (1927), George Lakoff (1941), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), and William Stokoe (1919).

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