# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakov-malkiel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:19:22.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakov-malkiel"
name: "Yakov Malkiel"
slug: "yakov-malkiel"
description: "Yakov Lvovich Malkiel was a Ukrainian-born American Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. He was the founder of the journal Romance Philology."
tagline: "American linguist, etymologist and philologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-07-22"
deathDate: "1998-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.28125
  historical:           7.875990666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "雅科夫·马尔基尔"
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    title: "ياكوڤ مالكيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yakov Malkiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Malkiel"
    title: "Yakov Malkiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Malkiel"
    title: "Yakov Malkiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A1kov_Malkiel"
    title: "Yákov Malkiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Malkiel"
    title: "Yakov Malkiel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Малкиель, Яков Львович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump