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Chinggeltei

Chinggeltei
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 清格爾泰
Simplified Chinese 清格尔泰
Mongolian script name
Mongolian script ᠴᠢᠩᠭᠡᠯᠲᠡᠢ
Transcription name
Transcription Činggeltei

Chinggeltei (12 June 1924 – 27 December 2013; also Činggeltei, Chinggaltai, Chenggeltai, or Chenggeltei) was a professor of linguistics at the Inner Mongolia University in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, focusing on the Mongolic languages. He was one of the founders of the university, and served as its first vice-rector. He was also a former member of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress.

Chinggeltei was born in Harqin Banner, Josotu, Inner Mongolia (now administratively part of Chifeng). He did his early studies at a Mongolian-medium school in Inner Mongolia, before going to Manchukuo. After completing his course there in 1939, he hoped to transfer to the Peking Mongolian and Tibetan School (北京蒙藏学校, in Beijing); however, they would not accept students from Manchukuo. Eventually, he ended up enrolling in a teacher training course at the Houhe Mongolian Academy (厚和蒙古学院; "Houhe" is an older Chinese name for Hohhot), which normally only accepted students from the western parts of Inner Mongolia; he scored well enough on the entrance exam to be placed into the second-year course, and graduated in late 1940. From there, he entered into a preparatory school for students planning to study in Japan, and in 1941, proceeded to Tokyo.

Upon arriving in Tokyo, Chinggeltei enrolled in a juku to study English and mathematics for the university entrance exams; he chose to aim at an engineering school, because he felt that his homeland particularly lacked people with such skills. He ended up first enrolling at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, but due to the long commute from his home and the intensification of World War II, transferred to Tohoku Imperial University in Sendai.


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