A Tibetan college teacher, Yixiweisa Acuo, got the highest awards in Chinese linguistics, the Award for Young Scholar and the Tashimoto Mataro Chinese Historical Phonology Award, in Tianjin on June 19.

From the School of Literature, of Nankai University, the 35-year-old young doctor won the title from five candidates for his dissertation on the comparison of Chinese and Tibetan language.

Acuo got the award at the 12th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL), which opened here Friday. Over 30 linguists in Chinese from 20 countries and regions including Christoph Harbsmeier from Norway and Huang C.T. Jams from Harvard University attended the two-day meeting.

This is the first time for the IACL, which was founded in Singapore in 1991, to hold its annual meeting in China.

Source: Xinhua