Celadet Alî Bedirxan
Celadet Elî Bedirxan (; 26 April 1893 – 15 July 1951), also known as , was a Kurdish diplomat, writer,
linguist, journalist and political activist. He held a master's degree in law from Istanbul University, completed his studies in
Munich, 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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