P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Dodkhudoev, Rahim

Tajik linguist Rahim Khalilovich Dodkhudoev was born into a

farming family in the village of Sokhchar in Shughnan on June 15,

1928. He joined the CPSU in 1950.

Dodkhudoev graduated from the Tajikistan State University in 1958

and remained at that university as a teacher until 1980. From 1980 to

1984, he was the Rector of the Institute of Russian Language and Lit-

erature of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate degree in 1980 and be-

came a professor in 1983. In 1984, he became a Senior Scientific

Worker at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences

of Tajikistan.

Dodkhudoev's research deals with the history of the development of

Pamirian phonetics, the establishment and development of Iranian lan-

guages, and their etymology. He is also interested in reducing the

lesser-known Pamiri languages into writing. He is the author of Lughati

Heterogrammahoi Pahlavi (A Dictionary of Pahlavi Heterograms,

1969) and Dasturi Mukhtasari Ta'rikhi Zaboni Tojiki (A Brief History of

the Tajiki Language, 1978). His other contributions include Materiali

po istoricheskoi fonetike shugnanskogo iazika (Information about Pho-

netics in the History of the Shughnani Language, Dushanbe, 1962) and

Pamirskai mikrotoponimia (Pamiri Microtoponymy, Dushanbe, 1975).

Dodkhudoev was a Distinguished Contributor to Education in Taji-

kistan in 1964 and of the Soviet Union in 1973. He is a recipient of the

Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.