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Mehrdad Bahar and Ahmad Tafazzoli. Kia also founded the Iranvij Society, in collaboration with Zabih Behruz and Mohammad Moghaddam. Behruz had completed his education under the mentorship of Edward G. Browne at Cambridge University and Moghaddam had completed his education at Princeton University. The Iranvij Society published a series of books on Iran's pre-Islamic civilization, culture, and languages. Kia served for many years as the deputy secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Arts. When the second Academy of Iranian Languages was established in 1971, he was selected as its first president and served until the 1979 revolution, when he stepped down. Aside from serving as the president of the academy and teaching at the University of Tehran and other institutions of higher learning, Kia published numerous books and articles. His works on various Iranian languages and dialects spoken both in Iran and beyond, earned him the title of Iran's founding father of dialectology or the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a subfield of sociolinguistics. In 1990, Kia traveled to the United States to visit his two sons. He passed away in Missoula, Montana on March 1, 2002.
175:, Iran, on 15 May 1920 into one of the oldest families of Mazandaran, which traced its roots to the pre-Islamic dynasties that ruled that province. The family produced a number of prominent government officials, intellectuals, and religious leaders during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Kia studied at Adab and Servat schools before attending Dar ol-Funun. After completing his secondary education, he attended the University of Tehran, where he completed his
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