Henriette Walter

Born Henriette Saada, Walter is a French linguist and emeritus professor at the University of Rennes 2, a specialist in phonology and a closest collaborator of André Martinet, who reached a wide public with accessible books on language such as Le français dans tous les sens. The Jewish-linguistics index that lists her records her among Jewish scholars; her general biographies note a French mother and Italian father without detailing a religious background.