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Haim Blanc

حاييم بلان

Notable figure 1926–1984 · Source: Virtual International Authority File, cluster 91261922: Blanc, Haim · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 11889319X: Blanc, Haim (1926-1984), Romanian-born Arabist and Semitist, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

From Romania; worked in Palestine

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Dialectologist; Communal Dialects in Baghdad (1964)

Biography

Romanian-born, he lived in Palestine. He taught Arabic and linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He wrote Studies in North Palestinian Arabic (1953) and then Communal Dialects in Baghdad (1964), which showed that the Muslims, Christians and Jews of Baghdad speak different dialects and became the basis of the distinction between qəltu and gələt dialects.