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William F. Shipley

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American linguist

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William F. Shipley
Communications
#3861
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#5411
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#1692
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Linguistics
#847
World Rank
#1091
Historical Rank
#254
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, William F. Shipley was an American linguist whose main area of research was the now-extinct Maidu language of Northern California. He was one of the last speakers of the language. Life Shipley was a student of anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber, and linguist Mary Haas at UC Berkeley. During World War II, he was part of a program to teach US Army soldiers to speak Mandarin Chinese at Berkeley.

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