Max Weinreich (1893/94 Goldingen(Kuldiga), Courland (Latvia) - 1969 New York) was a Yiddish linguist. 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Goldingen is a municipality in the canton of St. ... Kuldīga. ... Map Kurland, Courland, Couronia, Curonia, or Kurzeme is a former Baltic province of the Teutonic Order state in Livonia (ca. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics. ...

He founded the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (originally called Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO)) in Vilnius (Vilna) in 1925, and was its director from 1925 to 1939. From 1940 he led it in New York. YIVO, founded in 1925 as the Yiddisher Visnshaftlikher Institut (Yiddish Scientific Institute), later renamed as the Institute for Jewish Research, but almost always known by its initials, is the most authoritative source for orthography, lexicography, etc. ... YIVO, founded in 1925 as the Yiddisher Visnshaftlikher Institut (Yiddish Scientific Institute), later renamed as the Institute for Jewish Research, but almost always known by its initials, is the most authoritative source for orthography, lexicography, etc. ... Vilnius Old Town Vilnius (Belarusian Вільня, Polish Wilno, Russian Вильнюс, formerly Вильно, German Wilna, see also cities alternative names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania with population in excess of 540 thousand (in 2003). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...

He is the father of Uriel Weinreich. Uriel Weinreich (1926, Vilnius – 1967) was a Polish-American linguist. ...

He is often cited as the author of the criterion for distinguishing between "languages" and "dialects" - "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy" (Max Weinreich, der yivo un di problemen fun undzer tsayt, in: yivo bletter, January-July 1945, p. 13), but he states clearly in that article that he was quoting something told to him by an unnamed auditor at one of his lectures. Earlier authorship has also been attributed to Hubert Lyautey. A separate article discusses the origin of the aphorism in greater detail. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854 - 1934), made Marshal of France in 1921, was the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. ... One of the most frequently stated aphorisms in the discussion of the distinction between dialect and language is, “a language is a dialect with an army and a navy”. This is commonly attributed to one of the leading figures in modern Yiddish linguistics, Max Weinreich, and the aphorism therefore often...

Publications

• Hitler's Professors, New York: YIVO, 1946 (English transl.)

External links

• "a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot" - the famous quote.
• YIVO

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