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Peter Behnstedt

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Notable figure b. 1944 · Source: Open Library, record: P. Behnstedt, Sprachatlas von Syrien (1997) · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 143268384: Behnstedt, Peter (b. 1944), Arabic and Romance studies

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Sprachatlas von Syrien (1997)

Biography

Trained in Arabic and Romance philology, he gave his work to the geography of the Arabic dialects. He wrote Die nordjemenitischen Dialekte (from 1985) and the Sprachatlas von Syrien (1997), and with Manfred Woidich made the atlas of the Egyptian dialects (1985–1999) and then the Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte (2011–2021).