Xavier Delamarre


Xavier Delamarre is a French linguist, lexicographer and diplomat. He is considered a specialist of the Gaulish language.
Since 2019, he has been an associate researcher for the CNRS-PSL AOrOc laboratory, and the co-administrator, with Pierre-Yves Lambert, of Thesaurus Paleo-Celticus, a CNRS project that aims to replace Alfred Holder's Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz.
With linguist Romain Garnier, Delamarre is the co-publishing editor of Wékwos, a journal founded in 2014 and devoted to Indo-European comparative linguistics.

Career

Delamarre worked for the French diplomatic post in Helsinki, then in Harare, in Vilnius, in Osaka, and in Ljubljana. He has been first counsellor at the French embassy in Helsinki from 2004 to 2006, and a special adviser for international cooperation to the Secretary-General of the French government from 2008 to 2014.

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