# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-golla
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:04.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-golla"
name: "Victor Golla"
slug: "victor-golla"
description: "Victor Golla (1939–2021) was a linguist who specialized in the indigenous languages of California and Oregon, especially the Pacific Coast Athabaskan subgroup of the Athabaskan language family and the languages of the region that belong to the Penutian phylum. He was emeritus professor of anthropology at Humboldt State University and lived in Trinidad, California."
tagline: "American linguist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Yokuts_map.svg/330px-Yokuts_map.svg.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-02-10"
deathDate: "2021-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.41
  momentum:             11.27002288329519
  historical:           5.070050666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Victor Golla"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "ڤيكتور جولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Golla"
    title: "Victor Golla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Golla"
    title: "Victor Golla"
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  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Golla"
    title: "Victor Golla"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Golla"
    title: "Victor Golla"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15130498"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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