Václav Blažek

Václav Blažek (born April 23, 1959 in Sokolov, Czechoslovakia) is a historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia (Pilsen, Czech Republic).

His major interests include Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages, Nostratic languages, Dene-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.

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* cite journal|year=1989|title=Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda I|journal=Archiv Orientální
volume=57|issue=3|pages=201–210
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*cite journal|year=2000|author=(with John D. Bengtson)|title=Lexical Parallels Between Ainu and Austric, and Their Implications|journal=Archiv Orientální|volume=68|pages=237–258
*cite journal|year=2003|title=Lexica Nostratica Addenda|journal=Mother Tongue|issue=8|pages=11–22
*cite web|year=2005|url=http://www.phil.muni.cz/linguistica/art/blazek/bla-003.pdf|title=On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey