Choijinzhab (also known as Choijinjab or Qôijûngjabû; 16 January 1931 – 29 April 2022) was a Chinese

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of Mongolian ethnicity.

Biography

Choijinzhab was born in Jirim League (哲里木盟),

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

in 1931. After graduating from the Ulaan Bator Normal College in

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in 1949 he taught at a

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in Ulaan Bator, before returning to Inner Mongolia in 1950. He initially worked as an editor at the

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, and then studied as a research student at the Central College for Nationalities from 1954 to 1957. After graduating he took up a post at the

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, where he remained through his career. He was a professor at the university's Institute of Mongolian Studies. He was also the honorary director of the Chinese Academy of Mongolian Language and the director of the Chinese Academy of Ethnic Languages. Choijinzhab presentation

Between 1983 and 2022 Choijinzhab was involved with the computerization of Mongolian, and the creation of software for writing and editing Mongolian. He also worked on the standardization of the

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, both within China and internationally, and in 1998-1999 was intimately involved in the encoding of Mongolian in the

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and

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. He was also involved in the encoding of the Phags-pa script in 2003-2004.HPhags-pa script encoding
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Works

*1985. ''Lao Mengwen Tuo Mengwen Duizhao Mengyu Cidian'' 老蒙文托蒙文对照蒙语词典 (Dictionary of Mongolian with Old Mongolian and

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Mongolian). Hohhot. *1987. ''Weilate Fangyan Huayu Cailiao'' 卫拉特方言话语材料 (Materials on the Oirat Dialect). Hohhot. *1989. ''Mengguyu Yufa Yanjiu'' 蒙古语语法研究 (Study of Mongolian Grammar). Hohhot. *1991. ''Hanyi Meng Jichu Zhishi'' 汉译蒙基础知识 (Chinese Translation of Mongolian Basic Knowledge). Hohhot. *1998. ''Weilate Fangyan Cihui'' 卫拉特方言词汇 (Vocabulary of the Oirat Dialect). Hohhot. *1999. ''Mengguyu Yuyin Shengxue Fenxi'' 蒙古语语音声学分析 (Analysis of the Mongolian Phonetics). Hohhot. *2000. ''Mengguwen Bianma'' 蒙古文编码 (Mongolian Encoding). Hohhot. *Hitoshi Kuribayashi and Choijinzhab, 2001. ''Gencho hishi Mongorugo zentango gobi sakuin'' (Word- and suffix-index to The Secret history of the Mongols). Sendai.

References

External links

Article about Choijinzhab on the Hudong wiki

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