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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Kasym Tynystanov

Died in 1938

Kasym Tynystanov was born on 10 September 1901 in the village of Chyrpykty, on the shore of Issyk-Kul. Having attended the religious school, the Russian school in Karakol and then the teacher training institute, he founded the linguistics of his country: orthography, the first textbooks, the first grammar, scholarly terminology. Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Erkin-Too, the first Kyrgyz professor, he translated three thousand lines of the Manas into Russian. In 1933, Aaly Tokombaev accused him in the press of nationalism, pan-Islamism and pan-Turkism; declared an enemy of the people, he was shot on 6 November 1938.

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