# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-van-driem
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:02:33.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-van-driem"
name: "George van Driem"
slug: "george-van-driem"
description: "George L. \"Sjors\" van Driem is a Dutch professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Bern. He studied East Asian languages and is known for the father tongue hypothesis."
tagline: "Dutch linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sjors_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.55482533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "George van Driem"
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    title: "Georgius van Driem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George van Driem"
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    title: "George van Driem"
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    title: "George van Driem"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump