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John Selden Willmore

جون سلدن ولمور

Notable figure 1856–1931 · Source: The spoken Arabic of Egypt, American Research Center in Egypt library; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 14, Zahr al-Din, p. 54 · Second source: Native Court of Appeal, Cairo, House of Commons, 20 April 1910, Hansard

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

The Spoken Arabic of Egypt (London 1901)

Biography

A Briton of the Levant Consular Service, lent as a judge to the Native Court of Appeal in Cairo, with a thorough knowledge of Arabic. Author of The Spoken Arabic of Egypt (London 1901), a grammar of the colloquial, reviewed by A. R. Guest in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1902).