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Manuel Alvar

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Spanish dialectologist, romanist and hispanist (1923-2001)

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Manuel Alvar was a Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor who specialized in the study of dialectology and philology of the Spanish language.

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2000honorary doctorate of the University of Extramadura
1999honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
1994honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia
1990honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid
1988honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca
1988Premio Aragón
1985honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza
1985honorary doctor of the University of Valencia
1984honorary doctorate of the University of Granada
1974honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University
1967Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise
honorary doctor of the University of Alicante
National Award of Essay

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Manuel Alvar was a Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor who specialized in the study of dialectology and philology of the Spanish language. Throughout his career, Alvar oversaw and influenced the creation of many Spanish linguistic atlases; maps which recorded speech variations in a given geographical area. He served as Director of the Real Academia Española for four years and was a member of language academies throughout Europe and Latin America.

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Spain
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 2001 · aged 78
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13 languages

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