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}}Geoffrey Allan Khan FBA, (b. 1 February 1958, Cheltenham, United Kingdom) is a British linguist, hebraist and syriacist, the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, a post he has held since 2012.[1] He has published grammars for the Aramaic dialects of Barwari, Qaraqosh, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Halabja in Iraq, and Urmia and Sanandaj in Iran and leads the [https://nena.ames.cam.ac.uk/index-new.php North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database].[2]

Biography

Khan was born in Cheltenham and went to school in Middlesbrough.[3]

In 1984, he gained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies with a thesis entitled Extraposition and Pronominal Agreement in Semitic Languages. He became a researcher at the Cambridge University Library (1983-1993), working on the Cairo Genizah manuscripts. He then joined the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in 1993. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Semitic Philology in Cambridge.[4]

His main area of research is in linguistics studies of Hebrew and Aramaic while the focus of his Aramaic research is on North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

Honours

  • Fellow of the British Academy, 1998
  • Honorary Fellow of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2011.
  • Lidzbarski Gold Medal for Semitic philology, 2004.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/k/20228/Geoffrey%20Allan+KHAN.aspx |title=Geoffrey Allan KAHN |publisher=Debretts |accessdate=23 January 2013 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/How-to-Save-a-Dying-Language-187947061.html | title = How to Save a Dying Language | first= Ariel | last = Sabar | date = February 2013 | accessdate = 11 February 2013 | publisher = Smithsonian Magazine }}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Genizah Fragments Volume 6|url=http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/GF/6/|publisher=The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit|accessdate=13 March 2012}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Hebrew & Semitic Studies Teaching Staff |url=http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/hebrew/Khan.htm |publisher=University of Cambridge |accessdate=13 March 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316112811/http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/hebrew/Khan.htm |archivedate=16 March 2012 |df= }}
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7 : 1958 births|British Hebraists|Syriacists|Fellows of the British Academy|Alumni of SOAS, University of London|Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge|Living people

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