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
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