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Michael L. Chyet

Michael L. Chyet is a linguist of Middle Eastern languages at the Library of Congress. Formerly he was senior editor of the Kurdish Service VOA and professor the Kurdish at the University of Paris and at the Washington Kurdish Institute. He has written a Kurdish-English dictionary. He is a skilful linguist who is fluent in several Middle Easter Languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and at least two dialects of Kurdish, both Sorani and Kurmanji, in addition to several other European languages.


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Michael L. Chyet is a linguist of Middle Eastern languages at the Library of Congress. Formerly he was senior editor of the Kurdish Service VOA and professor the Kurdish at the University of Paris and at the Washington Kurdish Institute. He has written a Kurdish-English dictionary. He is a skilful linguist who is fluent in several Middle Easter Languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and at least two dialects of Kurdish, both Sorani and Kurmanji, in addition to several other European languages.



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