'''Václav Blažek''' is a Historical_linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk_University (Brno, Czech_Republic) and also teaches at the University_of_West_Bohemia (Pilsen, Czech Republic). His major interests include Indo-European_languages, Uralic_languages, Altaic_languages, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages, Nostratic_languages, Dene-Caucasian_languages, and Mathematical_linguistics (lexicostatistics and glottochronology). In his book ''Numerals'' Blažek discusses words for Numerals in several language families of Eurasia and Africa (Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Egyptian, Berber, Nubian, and Saharan), with briefer discussions of numerals in other languages around the world. ==References== * {{cite journal|year=1989|title=Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda I|journal=Archiv Orientální |volume=57|issue=3|pages=201–210}} * {{cite journal|year=1990|title=Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda II|journal=Archiv Orientální|volume=58|issue=3|pages=205–218}} * {{cite journal|year=1995|author=(with John D. Bengtson)|title=Lexica Dene-Caucasica|journal=Central Asiatic Journal|volume=39|issue=1|pages=11–50}} * {{cite journal|year=1995|author=(with John D. Bengtson)|title=Lexica Dene-Caucasica|journal=Central Asiatic Journal|volume=39|issue=2|pages=161–164}} * {{cite book|year=1999|title=Numerals: Comparative-etymological analyses of numerical systems and their implications|location=Brno|publisher=Masarykova Univerzita}} *{{cite journal|year=2000|author=(with John D. Bengtson)|title=Lexical Parallels Between Ainu and Austric, and Their Implications|journal=Archiv Orientální|volume=68|pages=237–258}} *{{cite journal|year=2003|title=Lexica Nostratica Addenda|journal=Mother Tongue|issue=8|pages=11–22}} *{{cite web|year=2005|url=http://www.phil.muni.cz/linguistica/art/blazek/bla-003.pdf|title=On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey}} {{Uncategorized|October 2006}}