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Marcel Cohen

مارسيل كوهين

Notable figure 1884–1974 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 296; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 925 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie, index entry: Cohen, Marcel (1884-1974), linguist

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Linguist; Le parler arabe des Juifs d'Alger (1912)

Biography

Born in Paris, he studied the Semitic languages there and taught at the School of Oriental Languages and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He described the Arabic dialect of the Jews of Algiers in a book published in 1912, studied the Semitic verbal system and its tenses (Paris, 1924) and wrote on Arabic vocabulary, alongside his many studies of the Ethiopian languages.