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Rudolf E. de Jong

رودولف إريك دي يونغ

Notable figure 1958–2024 · Source: University of Amsterdam, DARE record of his thesis · Second source: Leiden University, In memoriam Rudolf E. de Jong (1958–2024)

From the Netherlands; worked in Egypt

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Bedouin dialects of Sinai (2000, 2011)

Biography

He studied at the University of Amsterdam, did his fieldwork among the Bedouin of Sinai, and taught Arabic and dialectology at Groningen, Amsterdam and Leiden. He wrote A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral (Leiden: Brill, 2000), followed by A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai (2011). He was secretary general of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (2004–2015) and from 2012 directed the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, where he died.