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.  /
 _Barngarlidhi Manoo_ - PART TWO

## 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.

## 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''

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Ghil'ad Zuckermann
- **image**: Zuckermann.jpg
- **caption**: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann (in 2011)
- **birth place**: Tel Aviv, Israel
- **fields**: Linguistics,
 Language revival
- **alma mater**: University of Oxford
St Hugh's College, Oxford
University of Cambridge
Churchill College, Cambridge
Tel Aviv University
United World College of the Adriatic
- **known for**: Suggesting that Israeli Hebrew is based at the same time on Hebrew, Yiddish and other languages,
Classifying words that are borrowed from another language in a hidden way,
Phono-semantic matching,
Language revival and wellbeing
- **image size**: 250px
- **work institutions**: University of Cambridge
Churchill College, Cambridge
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Weizmann Institute of Science
University of Texas at Austin
University of Queensland
National University of Singapore
Middlebury College
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
The University of Adelaide