Alfredo Trombetti

Alfredo Trombetti (January 16, 1866 in Bologna – July 5, 1929 in Venice), was an Italian linguist active in the early 20th century.

Trombetti was a professor at the University of Bologna. He was a member of the Italian Academy.

He is best known as an advocate of the doctrine of monogenesis, according to which all of the world's languages go back to a single common ancestral language. His arguments for monogenesis were first presented in his book L'unità d'origine del linguaggio, published in 1905. This doctrine is still extremely controversial.

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