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This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Cyrus Gordon. Semiticist, held ancient Crete Minoan was Northwest Semitic
• Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages
• Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist
• Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology"
• William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015)
• María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist
• Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist
• Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics
• Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf
• Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics

References

1. "Cyrus Gordon Dies at 92, Studied Ancient Languages". New York Times.
2. "Joseph H. Greenberg AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
3. "Jay Jasanoff". 2005 LSA Institute.
4. "Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Dies; Was Leading Authority on Sumer". New York Times.
5. "William Labov receives the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics from the British Academy". Department of Linguistics. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
6. "A Brief History of M. R. Lida de Malkiel" (PDF). University of Berkeley.
7. "Guide to the Yakov Malkiel Papers, 1882-1998, bulk 1942-1992". Online Archive of California.
8. "Edward Sapir AMERICAN LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
9. "Dan I. Slobin". Berkeley Psychology.
10. "DEBORAH TANNEN, PHD". Georgetown University Medical Center.

• Linguists from the United States
• Lists of American Jews