# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bengtson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:27:44.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bengtson"
name: "John Bengtson"
slug: "john-bengtson"
description: "John D. Bengtson (1948–2024) was an American historical and anthropological linguist. He had been president and vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, and had served as editor of the journal Mother Tongue. Since 2001 he had been a member/researcher of Evolution of Human Languages, an international project on the linguistic prehistory of humanity coordinated by the Santa Fe Institute. His areas of work included Scandinavian languages and linguistics, Indo-European linguistics, the proposed Dené–Caucasian language family and paleolinguistics."
tagline: "American linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-03-26"
deathDate: "2024-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.139741333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون بينغتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bengtson"
    title: "John Bengtson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bengtson"
    title: "John Bengtson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bengtson"
    title: "John Bengtson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bengtson"
    title: "John Bengtson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Бенгтсон, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3394809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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