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James Edward Budgett Meakin

جيمس إدوارد بادجت ميكين

Notable figure 1866–1906 · Source: Meakin, James Edward Budgett, Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, Wikisource; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 16, Ahmamou, p. 35

From the United Kingdom; worked in Morocco

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

An Introduction to the Arabic of Morocco (1891)

Biography

An Englishman who joined his father in Morocco, working on his Times of Morocco as assistant editor and then editor. He mastered Moroccan Arabic among the people as Tahar bil Mikki, published his word-book of Moroccan Arabic with English explanations (1891), and later his books on Morocco.