Daniel Harbour

Daniel Harbour is an expert in formal linguistics and in writing systems. For twenty-five years, he has worked with speakers of endangered languages from the US to the South Caucasus and West Papua to preserve their knowledge for future generations and to understand the unique insights they offer into human language. Educated at Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is the Professor of the Cognitive Science of Language at Queen Mary University of London and is one of the few people in the world, beside tribal elders, familiar with the Kiowa language of Oklahoma. Daniel lives in London and has recently been made a Fellow of the British Academy.