Joaquín Gorrochategui

Joaquín Gorrochategui Churruca (born 17 August 1953) is a Spanish linguist, emeritus professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He works in historical linguistics on the languages of the pre-Roman Iberian Peninsula and the ancient languages of Western Europe, and is regarded as a leading authority on the history of the Basque language.