# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/witold-manczak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:36:32.635Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/witold-manczak"
name: "Witold Mańczak"
slug: "witold-manczak"
description: "Witold Mańczak was a Polish linguist. He was a member of Polish Academy of Learning and the Polish Academy of Sciences. \nHe is best known for his historical linguistics work on identifying, via statistical methods focusing especially on well-studied European languages, overarching tendencies in analogical change. He has also argued that Gothic is closer to German than to Scandinavian, and suggests Goths originally hailed from somewhere around present day Austria, rather than from Scandinavia.\""
tagline: "Polish linguist (1924–2016)"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-08-12"
deathDate: "2016-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.999999999999999
  historical:           9.469690666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ڤيتولد مانشاك"
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    title: "Вітальд Маньчак"
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    title: "Витолд Манчак"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Ma%C5%84czak"
    title: "Witold Mańczak"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Ma%C5%84czak"
    title: "Witold Mańczak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Ma%C5%84czak"
    title: "Witold Mańczak"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Ma%C5%84czak"
    title: "Witold Mańczak"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Ma%C5%84czak"
    title: "Witold Mańczak"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Ma%C5%84czak"
    title: "Witold Mańczak"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump