# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaron-matras
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:42:47.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaron-matras"
name: "Yaron Matras"
slug: "yaron-matras"
description: "Yaron Matras 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 and on Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language, and A Grammar of Domari. 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 and in 2010 he launched the Multilingual Manchester project. His publications include a book on Language Contact and a co-edited trilogy on Mixed Languages, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Borrowing."
tagline: "British linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    title: "يارون ماتراس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump