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Ives Goddard
American linguist
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- born
- 1941
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 84
- known for
- linguist, curator, anthropologist
1941 β 2025
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Robert Hale Ives Goddard III was an American linguist and curator in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. He is widely considered to have been the leading expert of his time on the Algonquian languages and the larger Algic language family.
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