Junast
| Junast | |
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| Born |
May , 1934 Horqin Right Middle Banner, Inner Mongolia, China |
| Died | April 9, 2010 Beijing |
| Citizenship | China |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions |
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| Known for | Study of Monguor language, Eastern Yugur language and the 'Phags-pa script |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 照那斯圖 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 照那斯图 | ||||||
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| Mongolian script name | |||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠵᠤᠨᠠᠰᠲᠤ | ||||||
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| Transcription | Junastu | ||||||
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhàonàsītú |
Junast (also Junastu; 1934–2010) was a Chinese linguist of Mongolian ethnicity who specialized in the study of the Monguor language, Eastern Yugur language and the 'Phags-pa script.
Junast was born in Horqin Right Middle Banner county in Inner Mongolia in 1934. His father and grandfather were farmers, originally from Chaoyang in Liaoning. His father wanted him to have an education, so Junast was sent to a local private school from the age of eight, where he studied Chinese and Mongolian, including the Confucian classics. In 1951 he passed the entrance exam for the Hinggan Middle School in Ulan Hot, where he specialized in the Mongolian language, but in the autumn of the following year he was accepted into the newly established Mongolian Languages and Literature program at the Inner Mongolia Teachers College, despite having only been at high school for one year. In March 1953 he joined the Communist Party of China, and in September he was sent to study Mongolian language at Beijing University. After graduation, in 1954, he was assigned to teach at the Inner Mongolia Mongolian Specialist College (内蒙古蒙文专科学校).
In 1954 he went back to Beijing to participate in a survey of Mongolic languages, and on completion of this work he transferred to the National Minority Languages Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From 1955 to 1956 he engaged in fieldwork in Qinghai, collecting materials for the study of the Monguor language. He returned to Qinghai to study the Monguor language several more times during the 1950s and 1960s.
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