Jerold Alan Edmondson (Chinese name: 艾杰瑞 Aì Jiéruì, September 30, 1941 – August 27, 2023) was an American linguist.
He earned his PhD in Germanic Languages from UCLA in 1973 and a Habilitation in General Linguistics from Technische Universität Berlin in 1979.
He was one of the researchers who documented the En language during a linguistic field expedition to northern Vietnam in the late 1990s.
In 1996, he received a National Science Foundation grant to study the minority languages spoken along the Vietnam and China borders.
[9] He tracked down two previously undocumented languages, Xa Pho and Nung Ven, in northern Viet Nam.