Yaron Matras
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Yaron Matras is a linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

 specializing in Romani
Romani language
Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own....

and related languages. He is one of the most prominent English-language Romani linguist and the author of several pioneering studies. He edited Romani in Contact, a collection of papers presented at the First International Conference on Romani Linguistics in 1993.

Bio. from The University of Manchester.
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