Alexander Dragunov

Alexander Aleksandrovich Dragunov (Александр Александрович Драгунов; 6 March 1900 – 21 February 1955) was a Russian / Soviet philologist and Sinologist from the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in Leningrad. He was considered a leading expert on the Dungan language and was involved in creating Latinxua Sin Wenz. He was the teacher of Sergey Yakhontov.

Dragunov graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1925. Between 1930 and 1936, he was based in Vladivostok and read lectures at the Far Eastern University. The rest of his life was spent in Leningrad.

Dragunov is particularly known for his contributions to phonetic reconstruction of the Old Mandarin language of the 12th to 14th centuries and his study of Chinese dialectology. His works led to the classification of the Xiang dialects (especially in Hunan) as a separate dialect group.

Dragunov was also an early proponent of the 23rd letter of the Tibetan alphabet as representing a voiced fricative in all positions. He chaired a commission that developed a Cyrillic script for the Dungan language.

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