Juozas Balčikonis (24 March 1885 in Ėriškiai, Panevėžys District – 5 February 1969 in

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) was a

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linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and teacher, who contributed to the standardization of the

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1885 births 1969 deaths 20th-century linguists 20th-century Lithuanian educators People from Panevėžys County Linguists from Lithuania Lithuanian lexicographers 20th-century lexicographers Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Lithuanian schoolteachers {{Lithuania-linguist-stub