Joshua Fishman
Joshua A. Fishman | |
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שיקל פֿישמאַן | |
Fishman giving a speech about the Gaelic language at the University of Aberdeen | |
| Born | July 18, 1926 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | March 1, 2015 (aged 88) The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Children | David Fishman, Avi Fishman |
Joshua Fishman (Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman; July 18, 1926 – March 1, 2015) was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity.