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## A GRAMMAR OF MODERN ARABIC In the circle of studies of modern Arabic dialects, widening with an increasing number of efficient workers and funds to work with up to July-August, 1914, Egyptian Arabic naturally occupies something of a central position. Good books are not wanting which present this dialect, or some form of it, to the student and inquirer from various points of view. The good old Spitta is, indeed, long out of print; the fact that it has for some time been practically unobtainable points to its worth, which in spite of wellknown defects would seem to warrant a new edition or, at least, an anastatic reprint. Vollers, less pretentious, printed in an English as well as a German edition, is a good enough book considering its small compass; less scarce than Spitta, second-hand copies are yet by no means plentiful in the open market. Its scarcity is not so keenly felt as in the case of the former, because the fuller works of Willmore and of Spiro Bey offer more than substitutes. Perhaps Thatcher (Harder, Armez), too, deserves mention here, even though literary, not colloquial, Arabic is the subject of his book; the course of study is distinctly pointed toward mastery of m

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Author

Martin Sprengling

Published

1919

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Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)