Claude Hagège (; born 1 January 1936) is a French

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

Biography

He was elected to the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

in 1988 and received several awards for his work, including the Prix de l' Académie Française and the CNRS Gold medal. Famous for being 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 ...

, he speaks (or is knowledgeable about) fifty languages, including Italian, English, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Greek, Guarani, Hungarian, Navajo, Nocte, Punjabi, Persian, Malay, Hindi, Malagasy, Fula, Quechua, Tamil, Tetela, Turkish and Japanese.

Publications

* ''La Langue mbum de nganha cameroun - phonologie - grammaire'', Paris, Klincksieck, 1970 * ''Le Problème linguistique des prépositions et la solution chinoise'', Paris, Société de linguistique de Paris, 1975 * ''La Phonologie panchronique'', Paris, PUF, 1978 * ''Le Comox lhaamen de Colombie britannique : présentation d'une langue amérindienne''. Amerindia, numéro spécial, Paris, Association d'Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne, 1981 * ''La Structure des langues'', Paris, PUF, 1982 * ''L'Homme de paroles'', Paris, Fayard, 1985 * ''L'Homme de paroles : contribution linguistique aux sciences humaines'', Paris, Fayard, 1985 * ''Le Français et les siècles'', Éditions Odile Jacob, 1987 * ''Le Souffle de la langue : voies et destins des parlers d'Europe'', Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1992 * ''The Language Builder: an Essay on the Human Signature in Linguistic Morphogenesis'', 1992 * ''L'Enfant aux deux langues'', Éditions Odile Jacob, 1996 * ''Le français, histoire d'un combat'', Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 1996 * ''Halte à la mort des langues'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2001 * ''Combat pour le français : au nom de la diversité des langues et des cultures'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2006 * ''Dictionnaire amoureux des langues'', Paris, Plon/Odile Jacob, 2009 * ''Contre la pensée unique'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2012 * ''Les religions, la parole, la violence'', Paris, Odile Jacob, 2017. * Le linguiste et les langues, Paris, CNRS, 2019.

Awards and honours

Awards

* 1981 :

Prix Volney The Prix Volney ( en, Volney Medal) is awarded by the Institute of France after proposition by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres to a work of comparative philology. The prize was founded by Constantin Volney in 1803 and was origin ...

* 1986 : Grand Prix de l'Essai de la

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for ''L'Homme de paroles '' * 1986 : Prix de l' Académie Française for ''L'Homme de paroles '' * 1995 : CNRS Gold medal

National honours

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