# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clement-martyn-doke
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:25.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clement-martyn-doke"
name: "Clement Martyn Doke"
slug: "clement-martyn-doke"
description: "Clement Martyn Doke was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages. Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one. A most prolific writer, he published a string of grammars, several dictionaries, comparative work, and a history of Bantu linguistics."
tagline: "South African linguist (1893–1980)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-05-16"
deathDate: "1980-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.206876000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlandvo_wa_clement_doke"
    title: "Umlandvo wa clement doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "كليمينت مارتين دوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_M._Doke"
    title: "Clement M. Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Martyn_Doke"
    title: "Clement Martyn Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Martyn_Doke"
    title: "Clement Martyn Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Martyn_Doke"
    title: "Clement Martyn Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Martyn_Doke"
    title: "Clement Martyn Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_M._Doke"
    title: "Clement M. Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Док, Клемент Мартин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Doke"
    title: "Clement Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Martyn_Doke"
    title: "Clement Martyn Doke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1100276"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump