Joshua Fishman

Joshua A. Fishman
Joshua A. Fishman
שיקל פֿישמאַן
	Fishman giving a speech about the Gaelic language at the University of Aberdeen
Born	July 18, 1926; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	March 1, 2015 (aged 88); The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	University of Pennsylvania (B.S., M.S.); Columbia University (Ph.D.);
Occupation	Linguist
Children	David Fishman, Avi Fishman

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