# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terrence-kaufman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:07:25.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terrence-kaufman"
name: "Terrence Kaufman"
slug: "terrence-kaufman"
description: "Terrence Kaufman was an American linguist who specialized in lexicography, Mesoamerican historical linguistics, the documentation of unwritten languages, and language contact phenomena. In the 1960s to the 2000s, he was considered a central figure in documenting Indigenous languages in Mexico and Central America. He served as professor emeritus of linguistics and anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh."
tagline: "American academic (1937–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Terrence_Kaufman.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-06-14"
deathDate: "2022-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.222222222222221
  historical:           7.876494666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Terrence Kaufman"
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    title: "ტერენს კაუფმანი"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump