Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959) is a Czech
historical linguist. He is a professor at
Masaryk University in
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...
and also teaches at the
University of West Bohemia
The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (, ZČU) is a university in Plzeň, Czech Republic. It was founded in 1991 and consists of nine faculties.
History
The university was formed by the merger of the ''College of Mechanical and Electrical E ...
in
Plzeň
Plzeň (), also known in English and German as Pilsen (), is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 188,000 inhabitants. It is located about west of P ...
.
His major interests include
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e. ...
,
Uralic languages,
Altaic languages
The Altaic () languages are a group of languages comprising the Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic and Tungusic languages, Tungusic language families, with some linguists including the Koreanic languages, Koreanic and Japon ...
,
Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages,
Nostratic languages
Nostratic is a hypothetical language macrofamily including many of the language families of northern Eurasia first proposed in 1903. Though a historically important proposal, it is now generally considered a fringe theory. Its exact composition ...
,
Dené–Caucasian languages, and
mathematical linguistics (
lexicostatistics and
glottochronology).
In his book ''Numerals'', Blažek discusses words for
numerals in several language families of Eurasia and Africa (Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Egyptian, Berber, Nubian, and Saharan), with briefer discussions of numerals in other languages around the world.
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External links
Selection of Articles by Václav BlažekVáclav Blažek Bibliography
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1959 births
Living people
People from Sokolov
Linguists from the Czech Republic
Czech educational theorists
Historical linguists
Linguists of Nostratic languages
Linguists of Dené–Caucasian languages
Academic staff of Masaryk University
Academic staff of the University of West Bohemia
Long-range comparative linguists