# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isidore-dyen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:16:07.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isidore-dyen"
name: "Isidore Dyen"
slug: "isidore-dyen"
description: "Isidore Dyen was an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University. He was one of the foremost scholars in the field of Austronesian linguistics, publishing extensively on the reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian phonology and on subgrouping within the language family, the latter principally by means of lexicostatistics."
tagline: "American linguist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Isidore_Dyen.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-08-16"
deathDate: "2008-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.603024
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Isidore Dyen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump