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José Lerchundi
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José Lerchundi

خوسيه ليرتشوندي

Notable figure 1836–1896 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 583; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 494 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lerchundi, José (1836-1896)

From Spain; worked in Morocco

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Grammar (1872) and dictionary (1892) of Moroccan Arabic

Biography

Born in Orio in the Basque Country, he went to Morocco and settled in Tangier, where he founded a school and an Arabic press. He wrote Rudimentos del árabe vulgar que se habla en el Imperio de Marruecos (Madrid, 1872) and the Vocabulario español-arábigo del dialecto de Marruecos (Tangier, 1892), and with Simonet published a Crestomatía arábigo-española with a grammar of Classical Arabic (Granada, 1881).