Witold Mańczak (12 August 1924 – 12 January 2016)[1] was a Polish linguist.
He was a member of Polish Academy of Learning and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He is best known for his historical linguistics work on identifying, via statistical methods focusing especially on well-studied European languages, overarching tendencies in analogical change.
[2] He has also argued that Gothic is closer to German than to Scandinavian, and suggests Goths originally hailed from somewhere around present day Austria, rather than from Scandinavia.
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