Václav Blažek | |
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 Václav Blažek inToruń, Poland (June 2015) | |
| Born | 23 April 1959 (1959-04-23) (age 66) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Masaryk University andUniversity of West Bohemia |
| Main interests | Historical linguistics |
Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959) is a Czechhistorical linguist. He is a professor atMasaryk University inBrno and also teaches at theUniversity of West Bohemia inPlzeň.
His major interests includeIndo-European languages,Uralic languages,Altaic languages,Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages,Nostratic languages,Dené–Caucasian languages, andmathematical linguistics (lexicostatistics andglottochronology).
In his bookNumerals, Blažek discusses words fornumerals 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.
