Juris Alunāns
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Juris Alunāns (official name Gustavs Georgs Frīdrihs Alunāns; May 13, 1832 – April 18, 1864) was a Latvian writer and
philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...
in the Russian Empire. He was one of the first contributors of the
Latvian language Latvian (, ), also known as Lettish, is an East Baltic languages, East Baltic language belonging to the Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Baltic region, and is the language of the Latvians. It is the official language of Latvia ...
. He was one of the members of the Young Latvia movement. Alunāns created about 500
neologism In linguistics, a neologism (; also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language. Most definitively, a word can be considered ...
s, most of which were quickly incorporated in the everyday Latvian language and are still being used.


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1832 births 1864 deaths People from Madona Municipality People from Cēsis county Latvian people from the Russian Empire Latvian philologists Linguists from the Russian Empire Writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century Latvian writers University of Tartu alumni {{Latvia-writer-stub