Francis Johnson (linguist)
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Francis Johnson (linguist)
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Francis Johnson was a British linguist. He taught Sanskrit, Telugu and Bengali at the East India Company College between 1824 and 1855. He compiled a comprehensive Persian, Arabic, and English dictionary, which he published in 1852 and which is the main thing he is remembered for. In 1829, Johnson published an expanded edition of John Richardson's Persian-Arabic-English dictionary, which was presented as the third edition of Richardson's dictionary. The dictionary presented Persian and Arabic wo
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