Archibald Norman Tucker (1904 – 1980) was a Cape Colony-born linguist specializing in Bantu languages.
He worked as Linguistic Expert of non-Arabic languages for the Sudan Government from 1929 to 1931.
[1] He was hired to teach at the School of Oriental Studies, being named a Professor of East African Languages in 1951.
During his 39 years teaching there, "a number of students passed through his hands; many of them were later to become experts in various languages.
Tucker is known primarily for his two books published with Margaret Bryan: The Non-Bantu Languages of Northeastern Africa (1956) and, a decade later, Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa.