# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-diffloth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:31:47.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-diffloth"
name: "Gérard Diffloth"
slug: "gerard-diffloth"
description: "Gérard Diffloth was a French linguist known as a leading specialist in the Austroasiatic languages. As a linguistics professor, he was employed at the University of Chicago and Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA, after a dissertation on the Irula language. He was an advocate of immersion fieldwork for linguistic research."
tagline: "French linguist (1939–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-02-13"
deathDate: "2023-08-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.22
  momentum:             1.363636363636363
  historical:           5.469366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Diffloth"
    title: "Gérard Diffloth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Diffloth"
    title: "Gérard Diffloth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Diffloth"
    title: "Gérard Diffloth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஜெரார்ட் டிப்லோத்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Diffloth"
    title: "Gérard Diffloth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Diffloth"
    title: "Gérard Diffloth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2186719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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