Nicolas Trifon

Nicolas Trifon (born Sorin Cătălin Edmond Nicolae Dumnorix Mihai Trifon; 29 May 1949 – 18 August 2023) was a Romanian-born academic, editor and linguist in France of partial Aromanian descent. Born in Bucharest and having studied at the University of Bucharest, he moved in 1977 to Paris, France, where he completed a linguistics doctorate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).

Trifon had a prolific intellectual production. He published several anarchist works, was an editor at the French-language online newspaper Le Courrier des Balkans [bg; fr; ro] and authored research works about Moldova and the Aromanians. Trifon was a major specialist in the Aromanians, having written several books about them. He saw himself involved in Aromanian activist initiatives and was a member of the Trâ Armânami Association of French Aromanians (AFA).