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Georges Séraphin Colin

جورج سيرافان كولان

Notable figure 1893–1977 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 307; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 918 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Colin, Georges Séraphin (1893-1977), born Champagnole, died Paris; chair of Maghribi Arabic, École des langues orientales

From France; worked in Morocco

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Scholar and teacher of Moroccan and Andalusian Arabic

Biography

Born in Champagnole in the Jura, he lived for many years in Morocco and later held the chair of Maghribi Arabic at the École des langues orientales in Paris. He wrote on the Arabic of fifteenth-century Granada (1928), the Arabic of Aragon (1931) and Andalusian and Moroccan dialect (1930), and with Lévi-Provençal edited al-Saqati's manual of the hisba with a glossary (1931).