Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Ghil'ad Zuckermann (, ) is a linguist who examines the relationship between language and identity. He looks at different languages and finds out how one culture influences another culture. He analyses the role of language in politics and nationhood, and the dynamics between language, religion and society. He discovers the origins of words. He figures out how new words enter a language. He investigates words that come from several sources at the same time. 

He is "a leading world expert in language revival". He reclaims languages that are no longer spoken. He believes that reviving languages is good, beautiful and helpful. He suggests that we should compensate people whose mother tongue was "killed". He also believes that we should make indigenous tongues the official languages of their region, and that we should have official signs in several languages at the same time.

He knows a lot about the revival of the Hebrew language. He was interviewed about it by Stephen Fry.

He gives lectures at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He also teaches students from all over the world in an online course that he created on Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages. In this course he had more than 20,000 learners from 190 different countries.

He was born in Tel Aviv on 1 June 1971. He studied at the University of Oxford (St Hugh's College), University of Cambridge (Churchill College), Tel Aviv University and United World College of the Adriatic.

He speaks many languages.

Books that he wrote
 Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond, Oxford University Press. 2020.  / 
 Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. 2003.  /  
 
 
 
 
 
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Essays that he wrote

Films where he appeared
Fry's Planet Word, Stephen Fry interviews Ghil'ad Zuckermann
edX MOOC ''Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages’’
SBS: Living Black: S18 Ep9 - Linguicide
Babbel: Why Revive A Dead Language? - Interview with Prof. Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Barngarla people rediscover their language, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
The Politics of Language (BBC), Stephen Fry interviews, again, Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann (30 September 2011)

Radio interviews with him
 BBC World Service: Reawakening Language
 ABC Keeping Language Alive

Essays about him
 Voices of the land, Anna Goldsworthy, The Monthly, September 2014.
 The man bringing dead languages back to life, Alex Rawlings, BBC Future, March 22, 2019. ("Ghil'ad Zuckermann has found that resurrecting lost languages may bring many benefits to indigenous populations – with knock-on effects for their health and happiness").
 Revivalist book incorporates Barngarla language efforts, Jarrad Delaney, Port Lincoln Times, July 16, 2020.

References

Other websites
 Ghil'ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxon.)
 University Staff Directory: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann 
 Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Academia
 Jewish Language Research Website: Ghil'ad Zuckermann
 Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann's website
 edX MOOC Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages

1971 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Asian translators
Essayists
Hebrew language
Jewish academics
Jewish Israeli writers
Jewish scientists
Linguists
People from Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv University alumni