# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-alvar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:50:55.425Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-alvar"
name: "Manuel Alvar"
slug: "manuel-alvar"
description: "Manuel Alvar was a Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor who specialized in the study of dialectology and philology of the Spanish language. Throughout his career, Alvar oversaw and influenced the creation of many Spanish linguistic atlases; maps which recorded speech variations in a given geographical area. He served as Director of the Real Academia Española for four years and was a member of language academies throughout Europe and Latin America."
tagline: "Spanish dialectologist, romanist and hispanist (1923–2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-07-08"
deathDate: "2001-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.4153
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
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    title: "مانويل ألفار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مانويل الفار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar_L%C3%B3pez"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AD%CE%BB_%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%B2%CE%AC%CF%81"
    title: "Μανουέλ Αλβάρ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Alvar"
    title: "Manuel Alvar"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1891429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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