Madeleine Mathiot

Madeleine Mathiot (June 11, 1927 – December 4, 2020) was an American linguist who was professor emerita of linguistics at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York.

Mathiot received her PhD in 1966 from the Catholic University of America with a dissertation entitled, "An approach to the study of language and culture relations." She is best known for her work on the O'odham language (also known as Papago-Pima), linguistic meaning, and conversation analysis. In 1973 she published A Dictionary of Papago Usage which was based on her work with O'odham-language speakers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Arizona Daily Star lauded it as "probably the finest dictionary compiled for any North American Indian language."