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In post-Soviet Tajik, the grammatical ending (izofa) -i is sometimes added
to the end of the given name, especially when the following surname is not
a Russian-style one ending in -ov.  (See the two different forms of name
for the first author in OCLC #40132274).  This has come up on cataloging
lists before, but I've never seen an authoritative explanation of this
phenomenon anywhere.

So it's possible that Baḣriddini Mirzo is a variant name of the
established Baḣriddin Mirzo.

Appropriately or not, names appearing only in this sort of construction
have been established with the -i included (n 2001100241, no2008036107),
since there's no instruction telling us to leave it out.

Robert Rendall



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On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:36 AM Robert Behra <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have a 2015 book in the Tajiki language written in Cyrillic characters.
> The author is named three times (on the title page, in the CIP data and the
> copyright statement) as follows:
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> Баҳриддини Мирзо
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> I had initially construed this as [given name] [surname], but a
> Dari-speaking colleague informed me that a given name wouldn’t end with an
> i (Baḣriddini). LC has a bib record (
> https://lccn.loc.gov/2009436037) with a contributor entered as Mirzo,
> Baḣriddin, possibly the same person.  Is there anyone on this list with
> knowledge of Tajiki names who could provide some guidance on how to set up
> this particular name?
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> Thank you.
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> Robert Behra
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