List of Jewish American linguists

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This is a list of famous Jewish American Linguists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

• Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
• Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher (atheist)
• Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
• Joseph Greenberg, language classification
• Morris Halle, linguist
• Zellig Harris, structural linguist
• Ray Jackendoff, linguist
• Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
• William Labov, sociolinguist
• George Lakoff, sociolinguist
• Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
• Morris Swadesh, linguist
• Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
• Michael Thomas, language teacher
• Max and Uriel Weinreich, linguists