Gotzon Garate Goihartzun | |
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![]() Goihartzun in 2002 | |
Born | [1] Elgoibar, Basque Country, Spain | 1 September 1934
Died | 1 October 2008[2] Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain | (aged 74)
Nationality | Spanish |
Occupation(s) | Writer, linguist |
Gotzon Garate Goihartzun (1 September 1934 – 1 October 2008) was a Basque and Spanish writer and linguist, collector of Basque dialects, Jesuit theologian.[3][4]
He made a significant contribution to Basque philology, sequentially from the Castilian tongue scraping borrowing. He was a polyglot, possessed by most of the Romance languages, English, German, Hindi, and a number of other, often while traveling to a country where the language was spoken, for the purpose of its study.[3][4][5]