P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Buri Karim

See Karimov, Buri.

Buzurgzoda, Lutfullo

Tajik linguist and literary critic Lutfullo Buzurgzoda was born in

Isfara in 1909. He received his early education in Isfara and Kazan, and

his higher education in Samarqand and Leninabad. He joined the CPSU

in 1942.

For a while, he was an editor as well as a Lecturer at the Dushanbe

Pedagogical Institute. At the same time, he was in charge of the Tajiki-

stan division of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In 1941,

he volunteered to join the war effort and was killed.

Buzurgzoda was accomplished in linguistics, stylistics, and folklore ;

in each field, he has left contributions. These include Shivai Tojikoni

Chilgazi (The Speech of the Tajiks of Chilgaz, 1936), Zada dar Zaboni

Adabii Tojik (Stress in the Tajiki Language, 1937), Shivai Leninobodi

(The Speech of the People of Leninabad, 1937), Shivai Vorukh (The

Speech of the People of Vorukh ), Dar Borai Shivai Tojikoni Sukh

(Concerning the Speech of the Tajiks of Sukh), Ba'zi Khususiyyathoi

Zaboni Aholii Samarqand (Some Peculiarities of the Speech of Samar-

qandis, 1939), Ocherki Mukhtasari Dialektologiai Shivahoi Tojikii

Vodii Zarafshon (A Brief Study of the Dialects of the Speech of the

People of the Zaravshan Region, 1939), Fonetikai Zaboni Adabii Tojik

(The Phonetics of Literary Tajiki, 1940), In'ikosi Shurishi Vose' dar

Folklor (The Reflection of the Vose' Uprising in Folklore, 1941), Mor-

fologiyai Zaboni Tojiki (Tajik Morphology, 1942), Sintaksisi Zaboni

Tojiki (Tajiki Syntax, 1942), and others.

Buzurgzoda died on 12 November, 1943.

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