Václav Blažek

Prof. Václav Blažek in Toruń, Poland (June 2015)

Václav Blažek (born April 23, 1959 in Sokolov, Czechoslovakia) is a historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia (Pilsen, Czech Republic).

His major interests include Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages, Nostratic languages, Dené–Caucasian languages, and mathematical linguistics (lexicostatistics and glottochronology).

In his book Numerals Blažek discusses words for numerals in several language families of Eurasia and Africa (Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Egyptian, Berber, Nubian, and Saharan), with briefer discussions of numerals in other languages around the world.

References

• "Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda I". Archiv Orientální 57 (3): 201–210. 1989.
• "Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda II". Archiv Orientální 58 (3): 205–218. 1990.
• (with John D. Bengtson) (1995). "Lexica Dene–Caucasica". Central Asiatic Journal 39 (1): 11–50.
• (with John D. Bengtson) (1995). "Lexica Dene–Caucasica". Central Asiatic Journal 39 (2): 161–164.
• Numerals: Comparative-etymological analyses of numerical systems and their implications. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita. 1999.
• (with John D. Bengtson) (2000). "Lexical Parallels Between Ainu and Austric, and Their Implications". Archiv Orientální 68: 237–258.
• "Lexica Nostratica Addenda". Mother Tongue (8): 11–22. 2003.
• "On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey" (PDF). 2005.