Joshua Fishman

Joshua Aaron Fishman (Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman;^[1] July 18, 1926 – March 1, 2015)^[2] was an American linguist. He specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity.

Joshua Fishman giving a speech about the Gaelic language at the University of Aberdeen.

Fishman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in The Bronx, New York, aged 88.