# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-ehret
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:27:04.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-ehret"
name: "Christopher Ehret"
slug: "christopher-ehret"
description: "Christopher Paul Ehret was an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics who was particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record. He was a professor at UCLA for almost half a century and published a great multitude of works, including Reconstructing Proto-Afrasian (1995) and Ancient Africa (2023). He authored around seventy articles on a range of historical, linguistic, and anthropological subjects. These works include monographic articles on Bantu subclassification; on internal reconstruction in Semitic; on the reconstruction of proto-Cushitic and proto-Eastern Cushitic; and, with Mohamed Nuuh Ali, on the classification of the Somali languages."
tagline: "American historian and linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-07-27"
deathDate: "2025-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1751313485113835
  historical:           8.954249333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Christopher Ehret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ehret"
    title: "Christopher Ehret"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ehret"
    title: "Christopher Ehret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Christopher Ehret"
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    title: "Эрет, Кристофер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump