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Areas of Expertise
- Historical Linguistics
- Semitic Linguistics
- Indo-European Linguistics
Education
- B.A. Linguistics with Highest Honors and Japanese Language and Culture, The University of Texas at Austin
I am a Kurdish-American historical linguist interested in the pre-history of the Iranian languages and the contact zone between Semitic and Iranian in the Kurdistan Region. The study of languages is a major component of my research which has so far included the study of Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian, Parthian, Kurdish, Kurmanci, Syriac, Akkadian and counting.