Rudolf Alexeevich Yanson (Russian: Рудольф Алексеевич Янсон; 6 March 1939 – 16 May 2021) was a professor at St. Petersburg State University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Philology of China, Korea and Southeast Asia in the Faculty of Oriental Studies.[1] He previously served as dean of the faculty of Oriental Studies. Yanson was on the board of the Moscow State Institute of Asian Studies.[2] His research focused on the historical phonology of Burmese. In 2004 Yanson gave a welcoming address to a conference on Indonesian studies.[3] Yanson served on the international advisory board of the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.[4] He was scheduled to give the keynote address at the Fifth Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium (1 September 2010, SOAS).[5]

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  • Yanson, Rudolf and U. M. Ospipov (1965). Ėto sluchilosʹ v polnolunie: novelly birmanskikh pisateleĭ. Moskva: Nauka.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1972). "K voprosy o proischozhdenii birmanskoj pis'meniosti." IV naucnaj konferentsija po istorii jazykami kul'ture Jugo-Vos-tosnoj Azii
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1977). "O rekonstruktsii finalej drevnebirmanskogo yazyka." [On the reconstruction of the finals of Old Burmese.] Vostokovedenie 5: 83-92.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1978). "Socetanija hr i rh v dreviebirmanskom jazyka." Vostokovedenie 6: 59-65.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1980). "O kriterijax opredelenija jazykovoj odnorodnosti drevnebirmanskix teskstov." Vostokovedenie 7: 77-85.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1990). Voprosy fonologii drevne-birmanskogo iazyka. [Topics in the phonology of the Old Burmese language.] Moscow: Nauka.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1990). "Proto-tibeto-birmanskie iniciayr ngr i ngy [The Proto-Tibeto-Burman initials ngr and ngj]" Vostokovedenie 16: 96-101.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1994). "Mon and Pali influence on Burmese: How essential was it?" Tradition and Modernity in Myanmar. Münster: LIT.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (1997). "O nekotorix sloznix slucayax interpretacii graficeskoy i foneticeskoy farmi' sanskritsko-paliyskix zaimstvovaniy v birmanskom yazi'ke ['On some complicated cases of interpretation of the graphic and phonetic form of Sanskrit Pali loans in Burmese]". Vostokovedenie 19: 58-64.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (2002). "A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions." Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. PIATS 2000: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies ed. Christopher I. Beckwith. Leiden: Brill.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (2005). "Tense in Burmese: A diachronic account." Studies in Burmese Linguistics, Justin Watkins, eds. 221-240. Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.
  • Yanson, Rudolf (2006). "Notes on the evolution of the Burmese Phonological System." Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages II. Christopher I. Beckwith, ed. Leiden: Brill. 103-120.

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  1. ^ "Кафедра филологии Китая, Кореи и Юго-Восточной Азии". www.orient.pu.ru. Archived from the original on 16 September 2009.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". www.iaas.msu.ru. Archived from the original on 26 February 2002.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Маклаевские чтения 2004".
  4. ^ "3.2". Archived from the original on 9 March 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
  5. ^ http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event52549.html Fifth Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium