Yaron Matras (born October 24, 1963) is a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingui ...

at the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The university owns and operates majo ...

specializing in

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

and other languages, including

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europ ...

ern languages. He is one of the most prominent English-language Romani linguists and the author of several pioneering studies, including a book on ''Romani: A Linguistic Introduction'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and on ''Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language'' (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and ''A Grammar of Domari'' (De Gruyter Mouton, 2012). Matras organized the First International Conference on Romani Linguistics in 1993, and has served as Editor of the cross-disciplinary journal '' Romani Studies'' since 1999. He has coordinated th
Romani Project
at the University of Manchester since 1999, and in 2010 he launched th
Multilingual Manchester
project. His publications include a book on Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and a co-edited trilogy on Mixed Languages, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Borrowing. In 2012 Yaron Matras was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.

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Bio. from The University of Manchester.
1963 births Living people Linguists of Kurdish Linguists of Romani Romani studies {{UK-linguist-stub