Abdellah Bounfour (born 1946) is a Moroccan
linguist
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and
philologist
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specialized in
Berber languages
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, literature and culture. He is an Emeritus University Professor at
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in
Paris
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.
Biography
Bounfour was born in 1946, a native of the Glaoua, a
Berber
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Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
tribe of the
High Atlas of
Marrakesh
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. He studied at the
University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, where he received his
''Doctorat de troisième cycle'' in 1976 and a
''Doctorat d'Etat'' in 1984. He got the
agrégation
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of Arabic in 1986. He worked as a
Maître de conférences at the
Mohammed V University in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
from 1976 to 1984, serving as head of the Department of French Language and Literature from 1979 to 1981 and curator of the library of the Faculty of Arts of Rabat from 1981 to 1983. Then from 1987 to 1997, as a Maître de conférences at the
Bordeaux Montaigne University. He is the Director of LACNAD (Langues et Cultures du Nord de l'Afrique et Diasporas) and LACNAD-CRB (
Centre de Recherche Berbère
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) since January 2010. He has been a member of the
Encyclopédie berbère Editorial Board since 2002 at the invitation of
Salem Chaker
Salem Chaker (born 1950 in Nevers) is an Algerian linguist. A specialist in Berber linguistics (syntax, diachrony, sociolinguistics), he is recognized as the "dean" of modern Berber studies.
Biography
Salem Chaker was born in 1950 in Nevers, ...
.
Notable works
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References
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1946 births
Berberologists
Berber scholars
Linguists from Morocco
Living people
Moroccan academics
University of Paris alumni
Moroccan expatriates in France