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Thomas Muir Johnstone

توماس موير جونستون

Notable figure 1924–1983 · Source: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, obituary: «Thomas Muir Johnstone» · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 118947516: Johnstone, Thomas M. (1924-1983)

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies (1967)

Biography

Professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He gave the first systematic description of the dialects of eastern Arabia in Eastern Arabian Dialect Studies (Oxford, 1967). He then compiled lexicons of the Modern South Arabian languages: Harsusi (1977), Jibbali (1981) and Mehri (1987).