P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Niyozi, Shavkat N.

Tajik linguist Shavkat Norovich Niyozi was born into a farming

family in Bukhara in 1905. He grew up in an orphanage. After finishing

his education, he taught in the schools of Dushanbe and Samarqand.

From 1930 to 1939, Niyozi taught--first at the Tashkent Pedagogical

School and, later, at the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute. From 1940 to

1947, he served at the research center of the Ministry of Education.

From 1947 to the end of his life, he was a Scientific Worker and the

Director of the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

Niyozi's research deals with the application of methodology to

education. He was a major supporter of Latinizing the Tajik script. His

contributions include a two-volume work, Grammatikai Zaboni Tojiki

Phonetika va Morpholgia (The Grammar of the Tajiki Language:

Phonetics and Morphology, 1941) and Grammatikai Zaboni Tojiki

Sintaksis (The Grammar of the Tajiki Language: Syntax). He also has a

number of other works dealing with word and sentence structure of

Tajiki, written specifically for pedagogical use.

Niyozi died in Dushanbe in 1962.

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