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Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet (February 1, 1847 - November 30, 1910) was a French journalist, philologist and author. [1]
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Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet (February 1, 1847 - November 30, 1910) was a French journalist, philologist and author. [1]
François Marie Casimir Mondon-Vidailhet was born in Saint-Gaudens, in Haute-Garonne. [2]
He was journalist for Le Temps . In this role, he left France for Ethiopia in 1891, and stayed there from 1892 to 1893 and from 1894 to 1897. [3]
He was professor at École nationale des langues orientales vivantes, [4] where he was the first occupant of the chair of Amharic, which he taught from 1898 to 1910. He was succeeded by Marcel Cohen. [5]
Works by Mondon-Vidailhet include: [6]
Joachim Menant was a French magistrate and orientalist.
Harari is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken by the Harari people of Ethiopia. According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, it is spoken by 25,810 people. Most of its speakers are multilingual in Amharic and/or Eastern Oromo. Harari is closely related to the Eastern Gurage languages, Zay, and Silt'e, all of whom are linked to the now extinct Semitic Harla language. Locals or natives of Harar refer to it as Gēy Sinan or Gēy Ritma "language of the City". Wolf Leslau identified unique Cushitic loanwords found only in Harari and deduced that it may have Cushitic roots.
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William McGuckin, known as Baron de Slane was an Irish orientalist. He became a French national on 31 December 1838. and held the post of the Principal Interpreter of Arabic of the French Army from 1 September 1846 until his retirement on 28 March 1872. He is known for publishing and translating a number of important medieval Arabic texts.
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