Václav Blažek

Václav Blažek is a Czech historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University in Brno and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň.
His major interests include Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages, Nostratic languages, Dené–Caucasian languages, and mathematical linguistics.
In his book Numerals, Blažek discusses words for numerals in several language families of Eurasia and Africa, with briefer discussions of numerals in other languages around the world.