Christopher Reynolds (linguist), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British linguist
Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1922
Date of Death: 03-Apr-2015
Profession: linguist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Christopher Reynolds (linguist)
- Dr Christopher Hanby Baillie Reynolds (29 July 1922 – 3 April 2015) was the first western academic to study the Maldivian language.He wrote the first English-Maldivian dictionary: this complied with the Maldive Government’s 1970’s then Roman-transliteration scheme.
- The material was available to academics from the 1970s, and finally published in 432 pages with 5000 individual entries in 2003.
- The dictionary complemented his 1993 150-page Maldives (World Bibliographical Series number 158) book.During his career as a Sinhalese lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London he taught and extensively researched the Sinhalese language and its pre-1815 literature: the Sri Lankan government awarded him the Sri Lanka Ranajana medal for this.
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