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. Linguis ...

at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

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 Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

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 Romani studies (occasionally Gypsiology) is an interdisciplinary ethnic studies field concerned with the culture, history and political experiences of the Romani people. The discipline also focuses on the interactions between other peoples and Ro ...

'' 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 The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

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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