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Wolf Leslau
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Wolf Leslau

فولف ليسلاو

Notable figure 1906–2006 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 321; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 972 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Leslau, Wolf (1906-2006)

From Poland; worked in France and the United States

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Semitist; Arabic loanwords in the Ethiopian languages

Biography

Born in Krzepice, Poland, he taught at the École pratique des hautes études and the School of Oriental Languages in Paris (1936–1939), then in the United States. Most of his work is on the Semitic languages of Ethiopia; on Arabic he wrote on Arabic loanwords in the languages south of Addis Ababa (1956), on the Arabic of Harar (1956), on the diminutive in Semitic and on Arabic and Himyaritic.