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Jorge Alberto Suárez (29 July 1927 – 24 February 1985) was an Argentinian linguist specializing in Mexican indigenous languages. He was born in Villa María in the province of Córdoba in Argentina, and was educated in Buenos Aires, first as a high school teacher. Along with his first wife, Emma Gregores, from 1959 to 1961 he finished a doctorate at Cornell University, studying with Charles Hockett. In 1968, he published his first book, a grammar of the Guaraní language, coauthored with Emma Gregores, a reworking of his doctoral dissertation. He subsequently taught in Argentina until 1969 when he moved to Mexico where he married Mexican linguist Yolanda Lastra, his second wife. In Mexico, he dedicated himself to the study of indigenous Mexican languages, working conjointly with his wife he carried out extensive dialectological surveys of Nahuatl and he conducted in-depth field work of the Tlapanec language (Me'phaa), writing the first full grammar of the language. In 1983 he published a widely influential book on Mesoamerican languages. He was also the editor of the monograph series Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México.
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29 July 1927 Villa María, Argentina
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24 February 1985 (aged 57)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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