P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Ghafforov, Razzoq

Tajik linguist Razzoq Ghafforov was born into a merchant family of

the village of Khaimar, Samarqand, on January 15, 1932.

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Ghafforov graduated from the Samarqand Pedagogical Institute in

1949 and from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute in 1953. He taught

middle school from 1949 to 1951. From 1953 to 1954, he was Instructor

of People's Education of Samarqand. Between 1954 and 1959, he was a

Teacher in the Department of Tajik Philology at Samarqand State Uni-

versity. He was a Scientific Worker in the Language and Literature In-

stitute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan from 1959 to 1965. In

1965, he became the Director of the History of Tajiki Language and

Dialectology of the same institute. He received his doctorate degree in

philology in 1979, and became a professor in 1984.

Ghafforov's contributions include "Zabon va Uslubi Rahim Jalil"

("The  Language and Style of Rahim Jalil," 1966); "Lenin dar Borai

Zabon" ("Lenin  On Language," 1966); "Revolutsiai Oktiobr va Zaboni

Adabii Tojik" ("The  October Revolution and Literary Tajiki," 1970);

"Navisanda va Zabon" ("Author  and Language," 1977); "Ustodi

Buzurgi Sukhan" ("The Great Master of Language," 1978); and "Shivaii

Janubii Zaboni Tojiki" ("The Southern Dialect of Tajiki," 1979).