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Čestmír Loukotka

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Čestmír Loukotka
Born	12 November 1895
Died	13 April 1966
Nationality	Czechoslovak
Occupation	Linguist
Children	Jarmila Loukotková

Academic background
Influences	Paul Rivet
Academic work
Notable works	Classification of South American Indian languages (1968)

Čestmír Loukotka (12 November 1895 – 13 April 1966) was a Czechoslovak linguist and ethnologist.^[1] His daughter was Jarmila Loukotková.^[2]

Career

Loukotka proposed a classification for the languages of South America based on several previous works.^[3] This classification contained many unpublished materials and therefore greatly improved upon previous classifications. He divided the languages of South America and the Caribbean into 77 different families, based upon similarities of vocabulary and available lists. His classification of 1968 is the most influential and was based upon two previous schemes (1935, 1944), which were similar to those proposed by Paul Rivet (whom he was a student of^[4]), although the number of families was increased to 94 and 114.^[5]

References

^ "KDO BYL KDO Čeští a slovenští orientalisté, afrikanisté a iberoamerikanisté / Who was who" (in Czech). Archived from the original on 9 March 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
^ "Prosaistin Jarmila Loukotkova ist gestorben | Radio Prag". November 2007.
^ Rivet, Paul; Loukotka, Čestmír; Stresser-Pean, Guy (1952). Antoine, Meillet; Cohen, Marcel (eds.). Langues de l'Amérique du Sud et des Antilles. Les langues du monde (in French) (Second ed.). Paris: Champion. pp. 1009–1160.
^ Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3.
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Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: Latin American Center, University of California. ISBN 9780879031077.
- reviewed in Carneiro, Robert L (June 1970). "LINGUISTICS: Classification of South American Indian Languages. Cestmír Loukotka. Johannes Wilbert, ed". American Anthropologist (Review). 72 (3): 686–688. doi:10.1525/aa.1970.72.3.02a00680.