Scientists whose most historically significant work is in linguistics: the scientific study of human language, its structure, history, and use. Grouped here as a formal science under this atlas's existing branch scheme rather than split by sub-field (phonology, syntax, historical linguistics and the like), since this atlas does not yet carry enough linguists to need that further split.
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1. Wikipedia: Linguistics
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Although the term linguist in the sense of "a student of language" dates from 1641, the term linguistics is first attested in 1847.
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