Notebooks on grammar and vocabulary by Roy Clive Abraham, 1921-1959

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Notebooks on grammar and vocabulary by Roy Clive Abraham, 1921-1959

1921-1959

The collection comprises the personal manuscript notebooks of grammar and vocabulary notes on the various African, Middle Eastern and European languages studied by Roy Abrahams.

5 boxes

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668244

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Abraham, Roy Clive, 1890-1963

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Roy Clive Abraham, born 6 December 1890, in Melbourne, Australia - died 22 June 1963, Hendon, London, England) was a key figure in African language scholarship during the twentieth century. He worked for over thirty years on a wide range of disparate languages. From 1923 to 1924 Abraham was at Balliol College, Oxford. He received a first-class honours degree in Arabic and Persian; he asked to be examined in Ethiopic, but no examiner was available. He took a certificate in anthropology from Un...