Alexander Aleksandrovic Dragunov (Александр Александрович Драгунов; 1900–1955) was a

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and Sinologist. He is particularly known for his contributions to phonetic reconstruction of the

Old Mandarin Old Mandarin or Early Mandarin was the speech of northern China during the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty and the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (12th to 14th centuries). New genres of vernacular literature were based on this language, including verse, dram ...

language of the 12th to 14th centuries and his study of Chinese

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. Coblin, W. South (2007), ''A Handbook of 'Phags-Pa Chinese'',

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, , pp. 24–25. Dragunov was also an early proponent of the 23rd letter of the

Tibetan alphabet The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system (''abugida'') of Indic origin used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It has also been used for some non-Tibetic languages ...

as representing a

voiced fricative A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate in t ...

in all positions.

References

Works

*Dragunov, A. A. 1929. "Binoms of the Type in the Tangut-Chinese Dictionary." In , series B, 145-8. *Dragunov (1930
"The hPhags-pa Script and Ancient Mandarin"
Известия Академии наук СССР. ''Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Union des Républiques Soviétiques Socialistes. VII série. Classe des humanités.'' 9: 627-647. *Dragunov, Aleksandr A. (1931). "Review of Simon, W., Tibetisch-Chinesische Wortgleichungen." ''Orientalistische Literaturzeitung'' 26: 1085-90. *Dragunov, Aleksandr A. (1936)
“Voiced plosives and affricates in ancient Tibetan.”
''Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica'' 7: 165-174. *Dragunov, Aleksandr A. / Драгунов, Александр А. 1939. Особенности фонологической системы древнетибетского языка / Osobennosti fonologičeskoi sistemy drevnetibetskogo jazyka. eculiarities of the Old Tibetan Phonological System.Записки института востоковеденииа Акад. Наук ССР / Zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia Akad. Nauk SSR 7: 284-295. *Dragunov, Aleksandr A. Исследования в области дунганской грамматики, ч. 1 — Категория вида и времени в дунганском языке (диалект Ганьсу) tudies in Dungan Grammar, Part 1 - Category of the form and time in the Dungan language (a dialect of Gansu) "Труды Ин-та востоковедения АН СССР", 1940, т. 27; "Proceedings of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of the USSR", 1940, vol 27. *Dragunov, Aleksandr A. Исследования по грамматике современного китайского языка, т. 1, М.—Л., 1952. tudies on the grammar of modern Chinese language, so 1, Moscow-Leningrad, 1952*Грамматическая система современного китайского разговорного языка, Л., 1962. rammatical system of modern Chinese spoken language, L., 1962 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dragunov, Alexander 1900 births 1955 deaths Soviet sinologists Philologists