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Celadet Alî Bedirxan

Celadet Alî Bedirxan (Kurdish: جەلادەت عەلی بەدرخان; 26 April 1893, Istanbul – 15 July 1951, Damascus), also known as Mîr Celadet, was a Kurdish diplomat, writer, linguist, journalist, political activist and nobleman. He held a master's degree in law from Istanbul University, completed his studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and spoke several languages including Arabic, Kurdish, Russian, German, Turkish, Persian and French. He left Turkey in 1923 when the Kemalists declared a new republic. In 1927, at a Kurdish conference held in Beirut, a committee was formed, the Xoybûn. He is known for having been the first modern linguist to compile and organise the grammar of the modern form of the Northern Kurdish language, Kurmanji, and having designed the Latin-based Hawar alphabet, which is now the formal alphabet of Kurmanji and is also sometimes used for the other dialects of the Kurdish Language, having replaced the Arabic-based, Cyrillic-based, Persian-based and Armenian-based alphabets formerly used for Kurmanji.

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