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Professor Manfred Woidich FBA

The descriptive dialectology, dialect geography of the Arabic language; historical linguistics of Arabic, in particular syntactic and semantic issues in Egyptian dialects. Teaching Arabic as a foreign language, colloquial first
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2017
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website
http://www.uva.nl/profiel/w/o/m.a.woidich/m.a.woidich.html

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, University of Amsterdam

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