Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi

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محمد ديري عبد الله

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| occupation = Linguist, scholar, writer

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| citizenship = Somali-Canadian

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University of Franche-Comté

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Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi ({{langx|so|Maxamed Diriye Abdullahi}}, {{langx|ar|محمد ديري عبد الله}}; born 1958) is a Somali-Canadian scholar, linguist, writer, translator and professor.

Biography

Formerly a journalist in his native Somalia, Abdullahi emigrated to Canada, where he earned a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec.{{cite web

| url=http://www.oocities.org/mdiriye/diriye.html

| title=La page de Diriye - Rugta Diriye

| author=Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi

| date=2001-12-08

| accessdate=2017-03-28}} He also earned a higher diploma in the instruction of French as a second language at the Université de Franche-comté in Besançon, France.

Abdullahi is fluent in Somali, Arabic, English and French. His research interests include the study of the Afro-Asiatic languages in general (particularly its Cushitic branch), as well as Somali history and culture.

He has also written numerous books, notably Culture and Customs of Somalia published by Greenwood Publishing Group in 2001, where he addresses the obscure origins of the Somali people, among other topics.{{cite book

| title=Culture and Customs of Somalia

| first=Mohamed Diriye

| last=Abdullahi

| series=Culture and customs of Africa

| volume=2

| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group

| year=2001

| pages=[https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00diri/page/198 198]

| issn=1530-8367

| isbn=9780313313332

| url=https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00diri/page/198

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Abdullahi currently teaches linguistics at the Université de Montréal. He also works as a freelance translator and language consultant.

Bibliography

=Major publications=

{{cite book

| title=Culture and Customs of Somalia

| first=Mohamed Diriye

| last=Abdullahi

| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group

| year=2001

| isbn=9780313313332

| url=https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00diri

}}

{{cite book

| first=Mohamed Diriye

| last=Abdullahi

| title=Parlons somali

| edition=French

| publisher=L'Harmattan

| year=1996

| isbn=9782738448989}}

{{cite book

| title=Fiasco in Somalia: US-UN intervention

| first=Mohamed Diriye

| last=Abdullahi

| publisher=Africa Institute of South Africa

| date=1995

| isbn=9780798301251}}

=Manuscripts and projects=

{{cite journal

| title=Is Somali a tone-language

| journal=Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Congress of Orientalists

| location=Cambridge

| date=August 1954

| editor=Denis Sinor

| publisher=London Royal Asiatic Society

| pages=367–368}}

The Evolution and Meaning of the Cardinal Directions in Somali—Paper showing how the four words for the cardinal directions in the Somali language evolved into their present forms.
The Diachronic Development of the Progressive in Somali—Paper discussing the formation of the progressive tense in the Somali language.

=Dissertation=

{{cite book

| title=Le Somali, Dialectes Et Histoire: Examination, analysis and classification of linguistic varieties spoken in Somalia and collectively dubbed "Somali".

| first=Mohamed Diriye

| last=Abdullahi

| publisher=Editions universitaires europeennes EUE

| year=2010

| pages=324

| isbn=9786131520594}}