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| Rudolf Thurneysen |
March 14
“Native Language Day” is a national holiday in Estonia, where linguistic rights are denied to the third of its population with the “wrong” native language.
1857: Birth of Rudolf Thurneysen, one of the first to apply the newly established principles of historical linguistics to Celtic languages.
1901: Publication of the first issue of Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen.
1902: Danish newspaper Politiken coins bil for "motor car." While most European languages took their word for this from the beginning of Latin or French automobile, Norwegians and Swedes have since 1902 followed the Danes in using the last part of the same original word.
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