ՀՀ ԳԱԱ ԱՐԵՎԵԼԱԳԻՏՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԻՆՍՏԻՏՈՒՏ
INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES OF NAS RA
Artyom Tonoyan
| Position | Researcher |
| Scientific degree | Candidate of Philological Sciences |
| Title |
Education
| 2006 - 2010 Iranian Studies (Bachelor's degree, Yerevan State University). Title of bachelor thesis – “The Orientalistic Heritage of Antuan Paul de Lagarde”. |
| 2010–2012 Iranian Philology and Ethnolinguistics (Master’s degree, Yerevan State University). Title of Master’s thesis – The Kurdish element in Azerbaijan. |
| 2012-2015 Old and New Languages of Asia (Doctoral degree, Yerevan State University). PhD awarded by the Resolution of the Council of Institute of Linguistics at National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (Dissertation title: Caucasian Persian (Tat): a Comparative Historical Research), 29.06.2015 |
Areas of researches/ Research Interests
| History of Iranian Studies, Iranian linguistics, Iranian dialectology, language contacts, Turco-Iranica, Armeno-Iranica |
Professional activity
| September 2015 to present lecturer at Yerevan State University, Department of Iranian Studies |
| 2021 July to present reasercher at Department of Iran in Institute of Oriental Studies NAS RA |
Awards, Prizes, Scholarships
| 1. “The typological research of non-Iranian grammatical stratum of Tati (Caucasian Persian) language” - German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Hamburg, 2017, July-August. | |
| 2. “The Region of Shirvan as an Armeno-Iranian Lingo-cultural Contact Zone” (jointly with Prof. Vardan Voskanian and Hasmik Kirakosian) - The Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan State University, 2018-2020. | |
| 3. “Charismatic Leadership in the Modern Political Cultures of the East (Anthropological and Linguistic Aspects)” (jointly with University of St. Petersburg) - The Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), 2020-2022. | |
| 4. «Kurds of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Problem of «Red Kurdistan» in the Context of Realities after the Second Artsakh War” - The Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia, Yervan State University, 2022-2024. | |
| 5. | The study of Armenian traces on the Caucasian Persian (Tati) dialect of Madrasa in Shamakhi: comparative-historical and typological aspects – German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Hamburg, 2023, July-September. |
Participation in conferences
| 1. “Лахидж и лахиджский язык” // Shirvan, Arran, and Azerbaijan: A Historical-Cultural Retrospective, 1-2 November, 2013, Yerevan. |
| 2. “Некоторые татские топонимы Нагорного Ширвана” // 1st International Conference on Tati Studies, 16-17 May, 2014, Yerevan. |
| 3. “Some Tati lexemes of the Saadi’s poetry” // International Conference On Oriental Studies, Persian Literature And History, 2016, Yerevan. |
| 4. “The vigesimal in Western branch of Iranian languages (on the materials of Tati, Tajiki dialects and Kurdish)” // International Conference on Linguistic Heritage, 2016, Tehran. |
| 5. On the problem of Khaqani’s birth-place: from the Tati tradition to the historical reality // Khaqani and Persophone Shirvan: Programme and abstracts, 2016, Yerevan State University, Yerevan. |
| 6. “The value of legends as a resource for the research of Khaqani's life. a legend in Tati language” // The fourth international congress on Persian poet and mystic Mirza Abdul-Qadir Bidel Dehlavi, 2017, Tehran. |
| 7. “Defining Features of the Madrasa Dialect of Armeno-Tat” // 8th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL 8), 11-13 October, 2018, Yerevan State University, Yerevan. (co-author Gilles Authier) |
| 8. “On the names of seasons in Caucasian Persian Language” // First Annual Armenian International Congress օn Oriental Studies, 9-10 November, 2018, Yerevan State University, Yerevan. |
| 9. “On the problem of endangered Iranian languages and dialects: the case of Armeno-Tat of Mountain Shirvan” // 1st Biennial International Conference Iranian Studies in the World, 20-21 October, 2021, Tehran. |
| 10. “On the problem of documentation of endangered Iranian languages spoken in Azerbaijan” // Persian language in South Caucasus, 22 August, 2022, Tehran. |
List of published books
| 1. | Political Stability of Newly Independent Countries under conditions of Modernization (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Moldova), Yerevan, 2018. (co-authors Aleksanyan Ar. (ed․), Aleksanyan Ash., Dodon C., Khizanashvili M., Ibraim Kyzy N). |
| 2. | Challenges to the Consolidation of Modern Democracy: IDL Comparative Analysis (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Moldova), Yerevan, 2019. (co-authors Aleksanyan Ar. (ed․), Aleksanyan Ash., Sarkisian A., Jamalian A.). |
| 3. | Political Stability of Newly Independent Countries under conditions of Modernization (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Moldova), Yerevan, 2018. (co-authors Aleksanyan Ar. (ed․), Aleksanyan Ash., Dodon C., Khizanashvili M., Ibraim Kyzy N.) (in Armenian). |
| 4. | Challenges to the Consolidation of Modern Democracy: IDL Comparative Analysis (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Moldova), Yerevan, 2019. (co-authors Aleksanyan Ar. (ed․), Aleksanyan Ash., Sarkisian A., Jamalian A.) (in Armenian). |
List of published articles
| 1. | Tonoyan A., The armenological heritage of Antuan Paul de Lagarde, Iran-name (Armenian Journal of Oriental Studies), vol. 42-43, Yerevan, Caucasian Centre of Iranian Studies, 2010-2011, pp. 12-18. (in Armenian). |
| 2. | Tonoyan A., The Phonem ž in Caucasian Tati language, Orientalia, vol. 15, Yerevan, 2013, pp. 57-61. (in Armenian). |
| 3. | Tonoyan A., Das Problem des Phonems ž in den nord-tatischen Dialekten von Berg-Schirwan, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (WZKM), Band 104, Wien, 2014, ss. 193-198. (in German). |
| 4. | Tonoyan A., Some features of numeral formation in Caucasian Persian, Orientalia, vol. 16, Yerevan, 2015, pp. 3-12. (in Armenian). |
| 5. | Tonoyan A., Etymological study of some words in Caucasian Persian, Bulletin of Yerevan University. Philology, vol. 1 (16), 2015 pp. 73-80. (in Armenian). |
| 6. | Tonoyan A. & Sargsyan H., The problem of some Arabic mentions of a word “Kurd” in post-marzpanate Albania, Problems of Oriental Studies (serial scholarly journal), vol. 12, Yerevan, 2016, pp. 262-272. (in Armenian). |
| 7. | Tonoyan A., On some peculiarities of the formation of categorical future tense in Caucasian Persian language, Journal of Oriental Studies (dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the faculty of Oriental Studies of YSU), vol. 14, Yerevan, 2018, pp. 366-380. (in Armenian). |
| 8. | Tonoyan A., On the Caucasian Persian (Tat) Lexical Substratum in the Baku Dialect of Azerbaijani. Preliminary Notes, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG), vol. 169, No. 2, Wiesbaden, 2019, pp. 367-368. (in English). |
| 9. | Tonoyan A., On some methodological features in university teaching of Caucasian Persian (Tat) language, Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. 16, Yerevan, 2019, pp. 153-160. (in Armenian). |
| 10. | Tonoyan A., From oral tradition to historical reality: on the case of Khāqānī Širwānī’s birthplace, The Countries and Peoples of the Near and Middle East, vol. XXXIII, part 1, Yerevan, 2020, pp. 456-473. (in Armenian). |
| 11. | Tonoyan A., Some remarks on the origin of the Iranian stratum of Caucasian Persian (Tati) Lexicon, Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Studies (BIOS), vol. 1/1 (34), Yerevan, 2021, pp. 167-178. (in English). |
| 12. | Tonoyan A. & Davydov A., On the lexical evidence of the concept of "leader" in Middle Persian and Arabic languages, Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Studies (BIOS), vol. 2/2 (35), Yerevan, 2022, pp. 152-160. (in English). |
| 13. | Tonoyan A. & Davydov A., Concepts of Charisma and Leadership in Bambara and Persian, Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, vol. 14, No. 4, Saint Petersburg, 2022, pp. 26-50 (in English). |
| 14. | Tonoyan A. & Misakyan G., The Kurds of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the problem of Red Kurdistan, The Scientific Journal of Cihan University, vol. 6. No. 3, Sulaimania, 2022, pp. 436-449. (in Persian). |
| 15. | Tonoyan A. & Avchyan H., On the changes of quantitative numerals 11–19 in Caucasian Persian (Tat) and Northern Talyshi, The Oriental Studies (Shodoznavstvo), Vol. 91, no. 1, A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, NAS of Ukraine, pp. 125-142. (co-author H. Avchyan). |
