# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yona-sabar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:38:23.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yona-sabar"
name: "Yona Sabar"
slug: "yona-sabar"
description: "Yona Sabar is a Kurdistani Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He is professor emeritus of Hebrew at the University of California, Los Angeles. A native speaker of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, Sabar has published more than 90 research articles about Jewish Neo-Aramaic and the folklore of the Jews of Kurdistan."
tagline: "Kurdish Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.2
  momentum:             0.7668711656441718
  historical:           6.345969333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Sabar"
    title: "Yona Sabar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "يونا صابر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "يونا صابر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Sabar"
    title: "Yona Sabar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Sabar"
    title: "Yona Sabar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A8"
    title: "יונה צבר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Sabar"
    title: "Yona Sabar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462754"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump