प्रख्यात शिक्षाविद Kapil Muni Tiwary

Kapil Muni Tiwary (born 1932) is a former professor and head of the department of Linguistics and Literature at Patna University. 

Kapil Muni Tiwary was born in Nainijor village in the Bhojpur District of Bihar, India. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 with a dissertation on grammar and phonology, Comparative reconstruction of Indo-Iranian sounds: On the basis of 'An Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit, part 1' by A. V. Williams Jackson.

Tiwary is a scholar of Southeast Asian languages. He has published on such topics as echo words in Bhojpuri and has argued that echo-word constructions (in which "a word is repeated without its initial consonant, sometimes with a vowel change") can function as a kind of secret language. He coined the term "institutionalized weeping" in a study of weeping among Tamil women.

Tiwary's first book, Panini's description of Sanskrit nominal compounds, was published by Janaki Prakashan, Patna in 1984. Another book, Language Deprivation and the socially disadvantaged: with special reference to Bihar, was published by Janki Prakashan in 1994.

Tiwary was one of the editors of a bi-annual journal of social sciences and humanities, Explorations. He also edited an anthology of English prose, Aspects of English prose: an anthology, with R.C. Prasad in 1986.