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Jean Cantineau

جان كانتينو

Notable figure 1899–1956 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 282; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 861 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Cantineau, Jean (1899-1956), born Épinal, died Paris

From France; worked in Syria and Algeria

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Dialectologist; author of Les parlers arabes du Ḥōrān (1946)

Biography

Born in Épinal, he studied Arabic in Paris, worked at the Institut français de Damas (1928–1932) and lived for long periods among the Bedouin of the Syrian desert. He taught general linguistics and Semitic languages at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers (1933–1947), then held the chair of Eastern Arabic at the École des langues orientales in Paris. He wrote Le dialecte arabe de Palmyre (1934), a Cours de phonétique arabe (1941) and Les parlers arabes du Ḥōrān (1946).