# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-blommaert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:31.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-blommaert"
name: "Jan Blommaert"
slug: "jan-blommaert"
description: "Jan Blommaert was a Belgian sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist, Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He also held appointments at Ghent University (Belgium) and University of the Western Cape. He was considered to be one of the world's most prominent sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists, who had contributed substantially to sociolinguistic globalization theory that focuses on historical as well as contemporary patterns of the spread of languages and forms of literacy, and on lasting and new forms of inequality emerging from globalization processes."
tagline: "Belgian academic (1961–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_blommaert-1466016595_(cropped2).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-11-04"
deathDate: "2021-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             0.8215297450424931
  historical:           7.013752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=j.blommaert"
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    title: "Jan Blommaert"
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    title: "چان بلومايرت"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Blommaert"
    title: "Jan Blommaert"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Blommaert"
    title: "Jan Blommaert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Blommaert"
    title: "Jan Blommaert"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump