# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-alan-matisoff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:26:15.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-alan-matisoff"
name: "James Alan Matisoff"
slug: "james-alan-matisoff"
description: "James Alan Matisoff is an American linguist. He is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a noted authority on Tibeto-Burman languages and other languages of mainland Southeast Asia."
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-07-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Matisoff"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matisoff"
    title: "James Matisoff"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump