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Alan S. Kaye

آلان كاي

Notable figure 1944–2007 · Source: California State University, Fullerton, news release: «Alan S. Kaye» (5 June 2007) · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 115317813: Kaye, Alan S. (1944-2007), linguist, Semitic languages

From the United States; worked in the United Arab Emirates

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic (1982)

Biography

Born in Los Angeles, he taught linguistics at California State University, Fullerton, chairing its department for eight years, and spent two years teaching at the United Arab Emirates University. He described the Arabic of Chad and Sudan in Chadian and Sudanese Arabic in the Light of Comparative Arabic Dialectology (1976) and compiled A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic (1982).