Ghil'ad Zuckermann ( he, גלעד צוקרמן, ; ) is an

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i-born language revivalist and

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who works in

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, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the

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, accessed May 4, 2020 He is the president of the

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Overview

Zuckermann was born in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

in 1971 and raised in Eilat. He attended the United World College (UWC) of the Adriatic in 1987–1989. In 1997 he received an

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in Linguistics from the Adi Lautman Program at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. In 1997–2000 he was Scatcherd European Scholar of the

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and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar at St Hugh's College, receiving a

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(

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) in 2000. While at Oxford, he served as president of the Jewish student group L'Chaim Society. As Gulbenkian research fellow at

Churchill College Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establish ...

(2000–2004), he was affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge. He received a titular

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(

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) in 2003. Zuckermann is a

polyglot Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all Eu ...

, with his past teaching positions ranging from Univeristies in England, China, Australia, Singapore, Slovakia, Israel, and the United States. In 2010-2015 he was China's Ivy League

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"Distinguished Visiting Professor", and "Shanghai Oriental Scholar" professorial fellow, at

Shanghai International Studies University Shanghai International Studies University (SISU; ) is China's leading university in linguistics, cultural studies, and global and area studies. Established in December 1949, SISU is known for being one of the earliest institutions where China's hi ...

. He was Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007-2011 and was awarded research fellowships at various universities in various countries. He was awarded a

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Research Grant, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship and

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. Currently, Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide. He is elected member of the

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, ...

and the

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. He serves as Editorial Board member of the

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(

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), consultant for the

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(OED), and expert witness in (corpus) lexicography, (forensic) linguistics and

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(

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). In 2013-2015 he was President of the Australasian Association of Lexicography (AustraLex). Since February 2017 he has been the president of the

(AAJS). In 2017 Zuckermann secured extensive research funding from Australia's

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(NHMRC) to study effects of Indigenous language reclamation on wellbeing.

Research

Zuckermann applies insights from the Hebrew revival to the revitalization of

Aboriginal languages Aboriginal language may refer to: * Indigenous language * Australian Aboriginal languages * Taiwanese aboriginal languages * Indigenous languages of the Americas * Aboriginal Malay languages The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-P ...

in Australia. According to

Yuval Rotem Yuval Rotem ( he, יובל רותם; born March 21, 1959) is an Israeli diplomat who is currently the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Biography Yuval Rotem was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to Rachel and Israel Frenkel, ...

, the Israeli

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to Australia, Zuckermann's "passion for the reclamation, maintenance and empowerment of Aboriginal languages and culture inspired imand was indeed the driving motivator of" the establishment of the Allira Aboriginal Knowledge IT Centre in

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, Australia, on 2 September 2010. He proposes

Native Tongue Title Native Tongue Title is a revivalistic term that refers to compensation for linguicide ( language killing). Native Tongue Title is the enactment of a statute-based,language loss Language attrition is the process of losing a native or first language. This process is generally caused by both isolation from speakers of the first language ("L1") and the acquisition and use of a second language ("L2"), which interferes with ...

, because "linguicide"Zuckermann, Ghil'ad
"Stop, revive and survive"
''The Australian Higher Education'', June 6, 2012. results in "loss of cultural autonomy, loss of spiritual and intellectual sovereignty, loss of soul". He uses the term ''sleeping beauty'' to refer to a no-longer spoken language and urges Australia "to define the 330 Aboriginal languages, most of them sleeping beauties, as the official languages of their region", and to introduce bilingual signs and thus change the linguistic landscape of the country. "So, for example,

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should also be referred to as Galinyala, which is its original

Barngarla The Barngarla, formerly known as Parnkalla and also known as Pangkala, are an Aboriginal people of the Port Lincoln, Whyalla and Port Augusta areas. The Barngarla are the traditional owners of much of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Languag ...

name." His edX MOOC ''Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages'' has had 20,000 learners from 190 countries. Zuckermann proposes a controversial hybrid theory of the emergence of

Israeli Hebrew Israeli may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the State of Israel * Israelis, citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel * Modern Hebrew Modern Hebrew ( he, עברית חדשה, ''ʿivrít ḥadašá ', , '' lit.'' "Mo ...

according to which Hebrew and Yiddish "acted equally" as the "primary contributors" to

Modern Hebrew Modern Hebrew ( he, עברית חדשה, ''ʿivrít ḥadašá ', , '' lit.'' "Modern Hebrew" or "New Hebrew"), also known as Israeli Hebrew or Israeli, and generally referred to by speakers simply as Hebrew ( ), is the standard form of the He ...

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(2011), ''Planet Word'', Penguin. pp. 125-126. Scholars including Yiddish linguist

Dovid Katz Dovid Katz (Yiddish: , also , Hirshe-Dovid Kats, , born 9 May 1956) is an American-born, Vilnius-based scholar, author and educator, specializing in Yiddish language and literature, Lithuanian Jewish culture, and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. ...

(who refers to Zuckermann as a "fresh-thinking Israeli scholar"), adopt Zuckermann's term "Israeli" and accept his notion of hybridity. Others, for example author and translator

Hillel Halkin Hillel Halkin ( he, הלל הלקין; born 1939) is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist, who has lived in Israel since 1970. Biography Hillel Halkin was born in New York City two months before the outb ...

, oppose Zuckermann's model. In an article published on 24 December 2004 in

The Jewish Daily Forward ''The Forward'' ( yi, פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, '' ...

, pseudonymous column "

Philologos Philologos is an etymology column about Yiddish, Hebrew and Jewish words and phrases. It ran for 24 years in ''The Forward''; since January 2015, it has run in ''Mosaic''. It is written anonymously. Mira Sucharov of ''Canadian Jewish News'' wrote ...

", Halkin accused Zuckermann of political agenda. Zuckermann's response was published on 28 December 2004 in ''The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language''. As described by

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in a 2006 article, "Zuckermann's lectures are packed, with the cream of Israeli academia invariably looking uncertain on whether to endorse his innovative streak or rise to the defense of the mother tongue." According to Omri Herzog (''Haaretz''), Zuckermann "is considered by his Israeli colleagues either a genius or a provocateur".

Reclamation of the Barngarla language

"In 2011 ..Zuckermann contacted the

community about helping to revive and reclaim the Barngarla language. This request was eagerly accepted by the Barngarla people and language reclamation workshops began in Port Lincoln, Whyalla and Port Augusta in 2012" (Barngarla man Stephen Atkinson, 2013). The reclamation is based on 170-year-old documents.Dr Anna Goldsworthy on the Barngarla language reclamation

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, September 2014 He tries to convince

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principals to teach Barngarla at their schools.

Adelaide Language Festival

Zuckermann is the founder and convener of the Adelaide Language Festival.

Contributions to linguistics

Zuckermann's research focuses on contact linguistics, lexicology, revivalistics,

Jewish languages Jewish languages are the various Language, languages and Dialect, dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the Jewish diaspora, diaspora. The original Jewish language is Hebrew, supplanted as the primary vernacular by Aramaic following th ...

, and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann argues that Israeli Hebrew, which he calls "Israeli", is a hybrid language that is genetically both

Indo-European 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, Dutc ...

( Germanic, Slavic and

Romance Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to: Common meanings * Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings * Romance languages, ...

) and Afro-Asiatic ( Semitic). He suggests that "Israeli" is the continuation not only of literary Hebrew(s) but also of

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

, as well as

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

Ladino Ladino, derived from Latin, may refer to: * The register of Judaeo-Spanish used in the translation of religious texts, such as the Ferrara Bible *Ladino people, a socio-ethnic category of Mestizo or Hispanicized people in Central America especi ...

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

and other languages spoken by

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

revivalists Revivalist may refer to: * A person involved in language revitalization * Revivalist (person) involved in a movement of Christian revival * Islamic revivalist * Revivalism (architecture) * Revivalist artist, a performer dedicated to reviving a ...

. Zuckermann's hybridic synthesis is in contrast to both the traditional revival thesis (i.e. that "Israeli" is Hebrew revived) and the

relexification In linguistics, relexification is a mechanism of language change by which one language changes much or all of its lexicon, including basic vocabulary, with the lexicon of another language, without drastically changing the relexified language's gra ...

antithesis (i.e. that "Israeli" is Yiddish with Hebrew words). While his synthesis is multi-parental, both the thesis and the antithesis are mono-parental. Zuckermann introduces revivalistics as a new

transdisciplinary Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research o ...

field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation (e.g.

), revitalization (e.g.

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) and reinvigoration (e.g.

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

). Complementing documentary linguistics, revivalistics aims to provide a systematic analysis especially of attempts to resurrect no-longer spoken languages (reclamation) but also of initiatives to reverse

language shift Language shift, also known as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language, usually over an extended period of time. Often, languages that are percei ...

(revitalization and reinvigoration). His analysis of multisourced neologization (the coinage of words deriving from two or more sources at the same time) challenges

Einar Haugen Einar Ingvald Haugen (; April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, writer, and professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University. Biography Haugen was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to Norwegian immigrants from t ...

's classic

typology Typology is the study of types or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology is the act of finding, counting and classification facts with the help of eyes, other senses and logic. Ty ...

lexical borrowing A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language. This is in contrast to cognates, which are words in two or more languages that are similar because the ...

. Whereas Haugen categorizes borrowing into either substitution or importation, Zuckermann explores cases of "simultaneous substitution and importation" in the form of camouflaged borrowing. He proposes a new classification of multisourced neologisms such as

phono-semantic matching Phono-semantic matching (PSM) is the incorporation of a word into one language from another, often creating a neologism, where the word's non-native quality is hidden by replacing it with Phonetics, phonetically and semantically similar words o ...

. Zuckermann's exploration of phono-semantic matching in

Standard Mandarin Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern standar ...

and

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Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

concludes that the

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

writing system A writing system is a method of visually representing verbal communication, based on a script and a set of rules regulating its use. While both writing and speech are useful in conveying messages, writing differs in also being a reliable form ...

is multifunctional: pleremic ("full" of meaning, e.g.

logographic In a written language, a logogram, logograph, or lexigraph is a written character that represents a word or morpheme. Chinese characters (pronounced ''hanzi'' in Mandarin, ''kanji'' in Japanese, ''hanja'' in Korean) are generally logograms, as ...

), cenemic ("empty" of meaning, e.g. phonographic – like a

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) and simultaneously cenemic and pleremic (phono-logographic). He argues that

Leonard Bloomfield Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalis ...

's assertion that "a language is the same no matter what system of writing may be used"Bloomfield, Leonard (1933), ''Language'', New York: Henry Holt, p. 21. is inaccurate. "If Chinese had been written using

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, thousands of Chinese words would not have been coined, or would have been coined with completely different forms".

Selected publications

Zuckermann has published in

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Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

and

Books authored

* *'' Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond''. New York
Oxford University Press
2020. / . * ( ''Israelit Safa Yafa'') *''

Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew ''Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew'' is a scholarly book written in the English language by linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, published in 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan. The book proposes a socio-philological framework for the an ...

''
Palgrave Macmillan
2003. / .
''Mangiri Yarda (Healthy Country: Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature)''
Revivalistics Press, 2021. *
''Barngarlidhi Manoo'' - Part 2''Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language''
2018.

2015.

Books edited

* ttps://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/ijsl/2014/226/html ''Jewish Language Contact''(Special Issue of the ''

International Journal of the Sociology of Language The ''International Journal of the Sociology of Language'' is a peer review, peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of sociology of language. It was established in 1974 by the eminent sociologist of language Joshua Fishman, who has serve ...

'', Vol. 226), 2014.
''Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics''
2012. / .

Journal articles and book chapters

* * * * * * * *

Filmography

Fry's Planet Word

Stephen Fry Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring ...

interviews Prof. Zuckermann about the revival of Hebrew
The Politics of Language
Stephen Fry interviews Prof. Zuckermann about language
SBS: Living Black: S18 Ep9 - LinguicideBabbel: Why Revive A Dead Language? - Interview with Prof. Ghil'ad ZuckermannedX MOOC: Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages

References

External links

University of Adelaide: Researcher Profile: Ghil'ad ZuckermannUniversity Staff Directory: Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Ghil'ad Zuckermann, AcademiaGhil'ad Zuckermann's website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuckermann, Ghilad 1971 births Living people People from Tel Aviv Linguists from Australia Australian lexicographers Linguists from Israel Israeli philologists Israeli Jews Australian Jews Historical linguists Etymologists Linguists of Yiddish Linguists of Australian Aboriginal languages Sociolinguists Israeli Hebraists Scholars of nationalism Israeli emigrants to Australia Semiticists Linguists at the University of Cambridge University of Adelaide faculty University of Queensland faculty National University of Singapore faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty Shanghai Jiao Tong University faculty East China Normal University faculty Shanghai International Studies University faculty La Trobe University faculty Tel Aviv University alumni Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge Israeli translation scholars People educated at a United World College 20th-century linguists 21st-century linguists Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students alumni Presidents of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies Language revival Chevening Scholars