Narayan Govind Kalelkar, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Narayan Govind Kalelkar

Indian linguist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1909

Date of Death: 03-Mar-1989

Profession: writer, linguist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Narayan Govind Kalelkar (Devanagari: ?????? ?????? ???????) (December 11, 1909 - 1989) was a linguist from Maharashtra, India. He was born in the village of Bambuli in Ratnagiri District.
He received his early college education in Baroda and Mumbai with specialization in French language, and a D.Lit.
Degree from a university in Paris. He taught French and Literature at Baroda Vidyapeeth, and Indo-Aryan/Indo-European languages at Deccan College in Pune. Kalelkar authored several books on linguistics in Marathi, they being the first of their kind in Marathi.
His Dhwanivichar (??????????) (1955) and Bhasha Ani Samskruti (???? ??? ????????) (1960) received Maharashtra state's literary prizes; and his Bhasha: Itihas Ani Bhoogol (????: ?????? ??? ?????) (1964) received a Sahitya Akademi award in 1967.