Václav Blažek
Václav Blažek | |
|---|---|
Václav Blažek in Toruń, Poland (June 2015) | |
| Born | 23 April 1959 (age 66) |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Masaryk University and University of West Bohemia |
| Main interests | Historical linguistics |
Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959) is a Czech historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University in Brno and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň.
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.