Čestmír Loukotka

Czech linguist

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In South American Indian languages: Classification of the South American Indian languages
C̆estmír Loukotka, a Czech language specialist, contributed two classifications (1935, 1944) on the same lines as Rivet but with an increased number of families (94 and 114, respectively), the larger number resulting from newly discovered languages and from Loukotka’s splitting of several of Rivet’s families.…
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