Tehran's Allameh Tabatabaei University will hold a commemoration ceremony today for the late Iranian linguist and lexicographer Ali-Mohammad Haqshenas.

Noted Iranian linguists Mohammad Dabir-Moqaddam and Kourosh Safavi will speak at the event to be held at the university's Literature and Foreign Languages Faculty, ISNA reported.
Known as the Father of Iranian Linguistics, Haqshenas passed away last month at the age of 70.
He made outstanding contributions to linguistics in Iran. Farhang Moaser English-Persian Millennium Dictionary is among his great works. It is a two-volume dictionary which took Haqshenas and his co-authors Hossein Samei and Narges Entekhabi 13 years to complete.
Haqshenas was selected as an Iranian luminary by Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature in 2006.
(Source: Press TV)
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