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Sample Publications

  1. Tonoyan A. (2014), “Das Problem des Phonems ž in den nord-tatischen Dialekten von Berg-Schirwan”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (WZKM), Band 104, pp. 193-198.
  2. Tonoyan A. (2019), “On the Caucasian Persian (Tat) Lexical Substratum in the Baku Dialect of Azerbaijani. Preliminary Notes”, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG), vol. 169/2, pp. 367-368.
  3. Tonoyan A. (2020), “Tatskaja ustnaja tradicija kak pervoistočnik dlja izučenija istoričeskix realij: O meste roždenija Xagani Širvani [From oral tradition to historical reality: on the case of Khāqānī Širwānī’s birthplace]”, in: Hakobyan A. & Bozoyan A. (eds) Armenija i vostočnoxristianskaja civilizacija – IV [Armenia and the Eastern Christian Civilization – IV],Yerevan: Publishing House of NAS RA, pp. 211-222 (in Russian).
  4. Tonoyan A. (2021), “Some remarks on the origin of the Iranian stratum of Caucasian Persian (Tati) Lexicon”, Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Studies (BIOS), vol. 34/1, pp. 167-178.
  5. Tonoyan A. & Davydov A. (2022), “On the lexical evidence of the concept of "leader" in Middle Persian and Arabic languages”, Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Studies (BIOS), vol. 35/2, pp. 152-160.
  6. Davydov A. & Tonoyan A. (2022), “Concepts of Charisma and Leadership in Bambara and Persian”, Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, vol. 14/4, pp. 635-647.
  7. Tonoyan A. & Avchyan H. (2023), “On the changes of quantitative numerals 11–19 in Caucasian Persian (Tat) and Northern Talyshi”, The Oriental Studies (Shodoznavstvo), vol. 91/1, pp. 125-141.
  8. Tonoyan A. & Voskanian V. (2024), “Caucasian Persian (Tati): History of Study, Current State and Perspectives”, in: Afshin-Vafaie M. & Firoozbakhsh P. (eds), Studia Persica 23 (in Memory of Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Yazdi), Tehran: Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Endowment Foundation, pp. 183-216.
  9. Voskanian V. & Tonoyan A. (2024), “Ètjudy po talyšskoj i kavkazsko-persidskoj (tatskoj) leksike [Études on Talyshi and Caucasian Persian (Tati) lexicon], Journal of Oriental Studies (Festschrift in Honour of Professor B. Piotrovsky), vol. 26, pp. 78-85 (in Russian).
  10. Tonoyan A. (2025), “Caucasian Persian (Tati) Fragments in Armenian Script: A Study of the Lord’s Prayer with Transliteration, Translation, and Comments”, Journal of Iranian Linguistics, vol 2/1, pp. 72-111.

Scholarly Interests

History of Iranian Studies; Iranian linguistics; Iranian dialectology; language contact; Turco-Iranica and Armeno-Iranica; language policy; historical and contemporary ethno-linguistic and ethno-political issues of the Caucasus–Caspian region.

Current Position

associate professor, Yerevan State University