Dr. Abderrahmane Hadj-Salah
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Dr. Abderrahmane Hadj-Salah 🇩🇿

عبد الرحمن حاج صالح (Known as "Hadj-Salah")
Father of Modern Arabic Linguistics in Algeria, President of the Algerian Academy of Arabic Language
Born Jul 08, 1928 🇩🇿 Oran, Algeria
Passed Away Mar 05, 2017 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 88 years old
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Pioneering linguist universally revered as the 'Father of Modern Arabic Linguistics', creator of the neo-Khalilian linguistic theory and President of the Algerian Academy of Arabic Language.

Biographical Record

Abderrahmane Hadj-Salah was born in Oran and completed advanced studies in mathematics, Arabic philology, and general linguistics at the Sorbonne under André Martinet. Returning to Algeria, he founded the Institute of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Algiers in 1964.

Hadj-Salah achieved global fame in linguistic science by formulating the 'Neo-Khalilian Theory', modernizing the classical 8th-century syntactic grammar of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad with modern mathematical and computational models. UNESCO linguistics expert and President of the Algerian Academy of Arabic Language, he won the King Faisal International Prize for Arabic Language and Literature in 2010.

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Final Resting Place

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Ain Témouchent Municipal Cemetery
Ain Témouchent, Algeria
GPS: 35.3000, -1.1400
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