Georges Gougenheim
Georges Gougenheim · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French linguist who developed 'français fondamental', a basic French vocabulary.
1900 — 1972
France
Georges Gougenheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — French linguist who developed 'français fondamental', a basic French vocabulary.
Georges Gougenheim was a French linguist and grammarian who, using word-frequency statistics, developed 'français fondamental' — a basic core vocabulary of French intended to make the language easier to teach and learn worldwide. His 1958 Dictionnaire fondamental de la langue française distilled the language to some 3,500 essential words. Publicly available biographies do not document a Jewish background, though he appears on community rosters of Jewish linguists.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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French linguist who developed 'français fondamental', a basic French vocabulary.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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