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British linguist (born )

Yaron Matras (born 24 October ) is a linguist at the University of Manchester specializing in Romani, Kurdish, and other languages of the Middle East.

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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, ) and on Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language (Edinburgh University Press, ), and A Grammar of Domari (De Gruyter Mouton, ).

Matras organized the First International Conference on Romani Linguistics in , and has served as Editor of the cross-disciplinary journal Romani Studies since He has coordinated the Romani Project at the University of Manchester since , and in he launched the Multilingual Manchester project. His publications include a book on Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, ) and a co-edited trilogy on Mixed Languages, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Borrowing.

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