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Yaron Matras (born 24 October 1963) is a linguist specializing in Romani, Kurdish, and other languages of the Middle East. 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. In his previous role at the University of Manchester he coordinated the Romani Project [1] and in 2010 he launched the Multilingual Manchester project.[2] 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.[3]
In 2012 Yaron Matras was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.[4]
- ^ "ROMANI Project - Manchester". romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Multilingual Manchester". Multilingual Manchester. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Yaron Matras". London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "University of Konstanz". Zukunftskolleg. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.