Václav Blažek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Václav Blažek

Czech educationist

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1959

Place of Birth: Sokolov, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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, Dené–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.