language: Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/language

Photos and Videos


Topics

Key People

Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
Ulfilas
bishop of the Goths
Wilhelm, Baron von Humboldt, oil painting by F. Krüger
Wilhelm von Humboldt
German language scholar
Roland Barthes
French critic
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
William Carey.
William Carey
British missionary
Otto Jespersen
Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
St. Isaac the Great
Armenian religious leader

Quiz
List
Demystified