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Jean-Honorat Delaporte

جان هونورا ديلابورت

Notable figure 1812–1871 · Source: Sylvette Larzul, Grammatisation et lexicographie de l'arabe algérien au XIXe siècle, Synergies Monde arabe 7 (2010), pp. 89–100; al-Istishraq al-Faransi fi al-Maghrib al-ʿArabi (doctoral thesis, CERIST copy), pp. 42, 238 · Second source: Alain Messaoudi, Les arabisants et la France coloniale. Annexes (ENS Éditions, 2015), notice Delaporte, Jean Honorat

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Wrote the first attempt at a grammar of Algerian Arabic

Biography

A Frenchman born in Tripoli in Libya, son of the dragoman Jacques-Denis Delaporte, he worked from 1831 as secretary-interpreter in the civil administration of Algiers, where he died. He published Principes de l'idiome arabe en usage à Alger (1836; reprinted 1839, 1845), a French–Arabic conversation guide (1837), and the fables of Luqman in Algerian Arabic (1835).