Isidore Dyen
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Isidore Dyen was an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University.
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Isidore Dyen was an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University. He was one of the foremost scholars in the field of Austronesian linguistics, publishing extensively on the reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian phonology and on subgrouping within the language family, the latter principally by means of lexicostatistics.
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Lived 1913 to 2008 · aged 95
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