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Shabo Talay

شابو طلاي

Notable figure b. 1968 · Source: Freie Universität Berlin, Semitistik und Arabistik, staff page: Prof. Dr. Shabo Talay · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 120744414: Talay, Shabo (b. 1968), Semitic philology, Arabic studies

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; the Khawētna Arabic dialect (1999–2003)

Biography

Born in Tur Abdin, he studied at Heidelberg and wrote his dissertation there (1997) on the grammar of the Arabic dialect of the Khawētna in the Jazira, published in two parts: the grammar (1999) and the texts and glossary (2003). He teaches Semitic and Arabic studies at the Free University of Berlin, and his research covers the Arabic dialects of the Jazira and the Khabur.