List of Jewish American linguists

This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.


 * Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher
 * Cyrus Gordon, Semiticist, held ancient Crete Minoan was Northwest Semitic
 * Joseph Greenberg, language classification, created a unified classification of African languages
 * Roman Jakobson, one of the founders of modern phonology (converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1975)
 * Jay Jasanoff, Indo-European linguist
 * Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist, known as the "father of Assyriology and Sumerology"
 * William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015)
 * María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist
 * Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist
 * Isaac Nordheimer, Hebrew and Syriac scholar and philologist
 * Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics
 * Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, studies linguistics and acquisition of signed languages of the deaf
 * Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist with a focus on gender linguistics