Xavier Delamarre
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Xavier Delamarre (French pronunciation: [ɡzavje dəlamaʁ]; born 5 June 1954) is a French linguist, lexicographer, and former diplomat. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on the Gaulish language.[1]
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Xavier Delamarre | |
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Born | (1954-06-05) 5 June 1954 (age 69) |
Citizenship | French |
Occupation(s) | Linguist, lexicographer |
Academic background | |
Education | IEP Paris (1977), INALCO (1978) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Celtic linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Etymology, onomastics, toponymy, lexicography |
Institutions | CNRS |
Notable works | Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (2001) Dictionnaire des thèmes nominaux du gaulois (2019–) |
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With linguist Romain Garnier, Delamarre is the co-publishing editor of Wékwos, a journal founded in 2014 and devoted to Indo-European comparative linguistics.[2][3]