WAggavaṃsa of Arimaddana was the author of the Saddanīti, a grammar of the Pāli language, specifically the text of the Buddhist scriptures, the Tipiṭaka. The work was completed in 1154, CE and was taken to Laṅka (Ceylon) a few years after its completion.
WBadr al-Zamān Qarīb, usually spelled Badrozaman Gharib was an Iranian linguist.
WJaleh Amouzgar is an Iranologist and a university professor.
WAzartash Azarnoush was a linguist and scholar of Iran. Born in Qom, he held two Ph.D. degrees from France. He specialized in Arabic literature. Azarnoush was part of Imam Sadeq University and Tarbiat Modarres University faculty, and was the director of the Arabic department of The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia in Tehran since 1986, and published over 200 articles in the field of Arabic literature, as well as a few dozen books.
WAli Darzi is an Iranian linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Tehran. He is known for his contributions to Persian syntax. Darzi received his MA from University of Tehran and earned his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
WGuy Deutscher is an Israeli linguist.
WBadiozzaman Forouzanfar or Badi'ozzamān Forūzānfar was a scholar of Persian literature, Iranian linguistics and culture, and an expert on Rumi and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.
WC.T. James Huang is a Taiwanese linguist. He is a professor of linguistics and director of graduate studies at Harvard.
WDr. Avshalom Kor is an Israeli linguist and expert on Hebrew grammar and semantics.
WNaser Manzuri is an Iranian novelist and linguist, born in 1953 in Mianeh.
WSahibzada Habib-ur-Rahman Qalandar Momand was a well-known Pashto poet, short story writer, journalist and linguist.
WMotoki Nomachi is professor in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He specializes in Slavic linguistics and general linguistics, and is an expert on Slavic microlanguages.
WManouchehr Sotoudeh was an Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature. He wrote 60 books and nearly 300 articles. He is the first Iranian who published the first dialectal dictionary. He was also a professor of University of Tehran.
WAhmad Tafazzoli was a prominent Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages and culture at Tehran University.
WYamada Yoshio was a Japanese linguist. He founded the influential "Yamada grammar", and was the first to use the word "chinjutsu" as a linguistic term.
WMojawer Ahmad Zyar is an Afghan linguist, writer and historian of Afghanistan.