Morris Swadesh
American linguist
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Morris Swadesh was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics.
Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents. Wikipedia
Born: January 22, 1909, Holyoke, MA
Died: July 20, 1967 (age 58 years), Mexico City, Mexico
Main interests: Historical linguistics; Glottochronology; Lexicostatistics; Indigenous languages of the Americas