Carme Junyent | |
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Born | Maria Carme Junyent i Figueras 4 February 1955 Masquefa, Catalonia, Spain |
Died | 3 September 2023 | (aged 68)
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Children | 2 |
Honours | Creu de Sant Jordi (2019) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | La classificació de les llengües d'Àfrica: el bantu i una hipòtesi (més) sobre la seva expansió (1991) |
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Institutions | University of Barcelona |
Maria Carme Junyent i Figueras (4 February 1955 – 3 September 2023), commonly known as Carme Junyent, was a Catalan linguist. Renowned in her work field, in particular for her defense of the Catalan language and studies on endangered languages, she was a professor of linguistics at the University of Barcelona.[1] She specialized in African languages and sociolinguistics.[2]