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Emanuel Mattsson

إيمانويل ماتسون

Notable figure 1875–1958 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 898; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 994 · Second source: National Library of Sweden (LIBRIS), catalogue record: Mattsson, Emanuel, 1875-, Ṭūlit ilʻumr: texte arabe vulgaire

From Sweden; worked in Lebanon

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; phonology of Beirut Arabic (1910)

Biography

He graduated from Uppsala University, taught the Semitic languages there, and lived for a long time in the Levant. His dissertation studied the phonology of the colloquial Arabic of Beirut (Uppsala, 1910–1911); he published the colloquial text Tulit il-ʿumr with a translation and notes (1912), and wrote an account of his travels through Lebanon (1916).