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Jean Lecerf

جان لوسيرف

Notable figure 1894–1980 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 313; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 973 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lecerf, Jean (1894-1980); librarian of the Institut français de Damas 1931-1939, chair of Eastern Arabic

From France; worked in Syria

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Scholar of Baghdadi Arabic and modern Arabic literature

Biography

He was librarian of the Institut français de Damas (1931–1939) and then taught Eastern Arabic at the École des langues orientales in Paris. He wrote on modern Arabic literature, on contemporary Arabic as a language of civilisation (1933) and on the teaching of Arabic (1936), and later on the dialect of Baghdad, including the language of Iraqi poetry in Baghdadi circles (1962) and syllable structure in Baghdadi Arabic (1969).