Welcome to Language Contact Manchester

Introduction to language contact phenomena, with case studies illustrating a variety of language contact situations.

Celebrating and promoting language diversity in the city-region of Greater Manchester

Information and sound samples from over a dozen endangered languages.

Contact Us

Professor Yaron Matras
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom

Email: yaron.matras@manchester.ac.uk
Phone (direct): +44-161-275 3975

Visit the Romani Project site for in-depth information on hundreds of dialects of Romani, each with its own language contact situation.

A pilot survey of the Kurdish dialects of Iraq.