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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^[1]
Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages^[2]
Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist^[3]
Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology"^[4]
William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015)^[5]
María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist^[6]
Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist^[7]
Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics^[8]
Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf^[9]
Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics^[10]

References

^ "Cyrus Gordon Dies at 92, Studied Ancient Languages". New York Times.
^ "Joseph H. Greenberg AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
^ "Jay Jasanoff". 2005 LSA Institute.
^ "Samuel Noah Kramer, 93, Dies; Was Leading Authority on Sumer". New York Times.
^ "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.
^ "A Brief History of M. R. Lida de Malkiel" (PDF). University of Berkeley.
^ "Guide to the Yakov Malkiel Papers, 1882-1998, bulk 1942-1992". Online Archive of California.
^ "Edward Sapir AMERICAN LINGUIST". Encyclopedia Britannica.
^ "Dan I. Slobin". Berkeley Psychology.
^ "DEBORAH TANNEN, PHD". Georgetown University Medical Center.

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