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Aharon Geva-Kleinberger

أهرون غيفع كلاينبرغر

Notable figure b. 1963 · Source: swisscollections, library record of the Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee (Brill, 2019) · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n2004007780: Geva-Kleinberger, Aharon (b. 1963, Haifa)

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee

Biography

Born in Haifa, he is a professor at its university. He described the city's speech in Die arabischen Stadtdialekte von Haifa in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (2004) and collected Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Tiberias (Wiesbaden, 2009). With Peter Behnstedt he produced the Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee (Leiden: Brill, 2019), which maps dialect features across 104 localities.