Manuel Alvar
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Spanish dialectologist, romanist and hispanist
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Linguistics
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Manuel Alvar's Degrees
- PhD Romance Philology Complutense University of Madrid
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Manuel Alvar was a Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor who specialized in the study of dialectology and philology of the Spanish language. Throughout his career, Alvar oversaw and influenced the creation of many Spanish linguistic atlases; maps which recorded speech variations in a given geographical area. He served as Director of the Real Academia Española for four years and was a member of language academies throughout Europe and Latin America.
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