linguist Stephen A. Wurm

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Stephen A. Wurm was a prominent linguist and polyglot renowned for his extensive documentation and classification of Indigenous Australian and Papuan languages.

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instanceOf academic
linguist
polyglot
university professor
birthCountry Hungary NERFINISHED
birthDate 1922-08-01
birthPlace Budapest NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath cancer
countryOfCitizenship Australia
Hungary
dateOfHonor 1995
deathDate 2001-10-07
employer Australian National University NERFINISHED
familyName Wurm NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Indigenous Australian languages
Papuan languages NERFINISHED
language classification
language documentation
linguistics
fullName Stephen Adolphe Wurm NERFINISHED
givenName Stephen NERFINISHED
honor Officer of the Order of Australia
influenced Australian Aboriginal linguistics
Papuan linguistics
languageSpoken English
French
German
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Russian
Tok Pisin
memberOf Australian Academy of the Humanities NERFINISHED
notableFor classification of Australian Aboriginal languages
classification of Papuan languages
documentation of Indigenous Australian languages
documentation of Papuan languages
notableStudent Andrew Pawley NERFINISHED
notableWork Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas NERFINISHED
Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing NERFINISHED
Languages of Australia and Tasmania NERFINISHED
Papuan Languages and the New Guinea Linguistic Scene NERFINISHED
occupation linguist
university teacher
placeOfDeath Canberra NERFINISHED
positionHeld Head of the Department of Linguistics at the Australian National University
Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University
researchFocus endangered languages
language contact in New Guinea
workLocation Canberra NERFINISHED

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Gamilaraay language documentedBy linguist Stephen A. Wurm