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Yuri Zavadovsky

يوري زافادوفسكي

Notable figure 1909–1979 · Source: Open Library: Arabskie dialekty Magriba (Moscow, 1962); Hamid al-Zalimi, Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 2 (Autumn 2014), pp. 142, 170; Saʿdun Mahmud al-Samuk, al-Istishraq al-Rusi, pp. 138, 145 · Second source: Review of In Search of the Lost East (Moscow 2014), a book on his life

From Russia; worked in France

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Dialectologist; author of Arabic Dialects of the Maghrib

Biography

His family left Russia in the 1920s; he lived in France, joined the Resistance under the occupation, then returned and gave his last twenty-five years to scholarship. He wrote The Arabic Dialects of the Maghrib (Moscow 1962; English 1978) and The Mauritanian Dialect of Arabic (1981), and with Khalidov translated al-Biruni's India into Russian (1963).