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Robert Blust

1940 - 2022

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Robert A. Blust (; Chinese: 白樂思; pinyin: Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Blust specialized in the Austronesian languages and made major contributions to the field of Austronesian linguistics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Blust is the 176th most popular linguist (up from 197th in 2019), the 8,545th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,343rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Robert Blust ranks 176 out of 214. Before him are Göran Malmqvist, Zellig Harris, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Henry Sweet, Henry Liddell, and Gideon Toury. After him are Sergei Starostin, Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Dell Hymes, and Ivan Kuratov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Robert Blust ranks 451. Before him are Tim Severin, Carl von Essen, Willi Holdorf, Franco Balmamion, Leonid Osyka, and György Sarlós. After him are S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Sven-Gunnar Larsson, Thue Christiansen, Phelekezela Mphoko, Gianni De Michelis, and Viktor Pavlov. Among people deceased in 2022, Robert Blust ranks 462. Before him are Norman Mineta, Anton Donchev, Birju Maharaj, Betty Davis, Hebe de Bonafini, and Mickey Kuhn. After him are Thue Christiansen, Nils Arne Eggen, Tsuneko Sasamoto, Antonio Martino, Eugenio Scalfari, and Kiril Dojčinovski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Blust ranks 8,547 out of 20,380. Before him are Anne Sewell Young (1871), Robert Coover (1932), Robert Young (1907), Michael Flatley (1958), Fran Lebowitz (1950), and Lewis Sheldon (1874). After him are Patrick St. Esprit (1954), Cliff Martinez (1954), Kevin Gage (1959), Bob Bryar (1979), Ira Murchison (1933), and Debra Hill (1950).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Robert Blust ranks 20. Before him are Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), George Perkins Marsh (1801), Dell Hymes (1927), and Alice Kober (1906). After him are Lyle Campbell (1942), and Daniel Everett (1951).

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