# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-fishman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:47:50.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-fishman"
name: "Joshua Fishman"
slug: "joshua-fishman"
description: "Joshua Fishman was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity."
tagline: "American linguist (1926–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joshau_Fishman_Aberdeen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-07-18"
deathDate: "2015-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump