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Joyce Blau
Professor Emeritus, orientalist
browse: linguists
dead
- born
- 1932
- died
- 2024
- age at death
- 92
- known for
- linguist, orientalist
1932 β 2024

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who joyce blau is
Joyce Blau was an Egyptian-born French linguist who specialised in Kurdish language and literature.
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