A. S. Amanzholov

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Altaj Sarsenovič Amanžolov (Алтай Сарсенович Аманжолов; Altay Sersenulı Amanjolov, born 1934 in Almaty, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakhi Turkologist.

[edit] Biography

He graduated in 1957 at the Eastern Languages Institute of Moscow State University, in Turkic philology. 1957-1960 and 1964-1966 at the Academy of Sciences, Kazakh SSR, 1966-1979 at lecturing in Kazakh language at the Kazakh State Women Pedagogical Institute. In 1975 he submitted his doctoral thesis on "Materials and research in the history of Old Turkic writing". 1979-1995 dean of the General Linguistics Faculty at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Amanzholov lectured for one year at the Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, in 1993/1994. Since 1995, he is a full member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Humanities.

[edit] Publications

Amanzholov authored five monographs in Russian and Kazakh.

Glagol'noe upravlenie v iazyke drevneturkskikh pamiatnikov ("Verbal inflection in the language of the Old Turkic monuments"), Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", 1969.
"Turkic runic graphics", Almaty, KazGU, three parts, 1980-1985
Babalar sözi, Peking: Ülttar baspasy, 1988, 70 pp. (Kazakh)
Ortak asyl miras - Ortak asyl miras, Trabzon, 1994, (Turkish and Kazakh);
Türki filologiyasy jene jazu Tarihi, Almaty, Sanat, 1996, 128 pp. (Kazakh);
Qazaqsha-Oryssha Lingvistikalyq Terminologiia Sozdigi : Kazakhsko-Russkii Slovar Lingvisticheskoi Terminologii ("Kazakh-Russian dictionary of linguistic terminology"). Almaty, Qazaq universiteti (1997), ISBN 9965408017, 2nd ed. 1999.
История и теория древнетюркского письма ("History and Theory of the Old Turkic script"), Mektep, Kazakhstan (2003), ISBN 9965162042.