# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marko-snoj
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:44:20.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marko-snoj"
name: "Marko Snoj"
slug: "marko-snoj"
description: "Marko Snoj is a Slovenian Indo-Europeanist, Slavist, Albanologist, lexicographer, and etymologist employed at the Fran Ramovš Institute for Slovene Language of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He served as director of the institute from 2008 to 2018. He has made numerous scholarly contributions to Indo-European linguistics, particularly in the realms of Slovene and Albanian, and is noted for his work in advancing Slavic etymology in both scholarly and popular domains. He is a full fellow of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts."
tagline: "Slovenian linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marko_Snoj_med.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.87
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           5.936789333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Snoj"
    title: "Marko Snoj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%DA%86"
    title: "ماركو سنوچ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Snoj"
    title: "Marko Snoj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%98"
    title: "Марко Сној"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Snoj"
    title: "Marko Snoj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Сной, Марко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Snoj"
    title: "Marko Snoj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3338766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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