Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959 in
Sokolov,
Czechoslovakia
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) is a Czech
historical linguist. He is a professor at
Masaryk University
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Brno
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,
Czech Republic
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) and also teaches at the
University of West Bohemia (
Pilsen, Czech Republic).
His major interests include
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, D ...
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Uralic languages
The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian ...
,
Altaic languages
Altaic (; also called Transeurasian) is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. Speakers of these languages ar ...
,
Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages,
Nostratic languages,
Dené–Caucasian languages, and
mathematical linguistics
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lexicostatistics and
glottochronology Glottochronology (from Attic Greek γλῶττα ''tongue, language'' and χρόνος ''time'') is the part of lexicostatistics which involves comparative linguistics and deals with the chronological relationship between languages.Sheila Embleton ...
).
In his book ''Numerals'', Blažek discusses words for
numerals in several language families of Eurasia and Africa (Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Egyptian, Berber, Nubian, and Saharan), with briefer discussions of numerals in other languages around the world.
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External links
Selection of Articles by Václav BlažekVáclav Blažek Bibliography
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1959 births
Living people
People from Sokolov
Linguists from the Czech Republic
Czech educational theorists
Paleolinguists
Linguists of Nostratic languages
Linguists of Dené–Caucasian languages
Masaryk University faculty
University of West Bohemia faculty
Long-range comparative linguists