P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Berdieva, Turdikhon

Tajik Orientalist and linguist Turdikhon Ishonovna Berdieva was

born into a family of workers in Konibodom on June 7, 1942. She

joined the CPSU in 1971.

Berdieva graduated from the Tajikistan State University in 1963. In

1967, she began teaching at the Department of Arabic of the Faculty of

Oriental Languages of Tajikistan State University. She received her

doctorate degree in philology in 1983 and became a professor in 1986.

Berdieva's research deals with Arabic vocabulary and structural ele-

ments that have found their way into the Tajiki language. She is also in-

terested in sociolinguistics and issues of preventing foreign words from

entering the Tajiki language. Berdieva's contributions include Leksika i

grammaticheskie elementi arabskogo iazika v tadzhikskom (Arabic

Words and Grammatical Compositions in Tajiki, Dushanbe, 1968).

Berdieva was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Tajik

education in 1984.

Boboev

See Soleh, Muhammadzamon.

Boboev, Adham

Tajik physicist Adham Safarovich Boboev was born in the village of

Zimtud of Panjakent on June 11, 1935. He joined the CPSU in 1971.

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