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Yu Min (俞敏) (1916–1995) was an influential Chinese linguist, a 1940 graduate of the Fu Jen Catholic University, Chinese Department, a former professor of Yenching University, and professor of Beijing Normal University. His primary research areas were Chinese historical linguistics, Sino-Tibetan comparison, the study of Sanskrit in Chinese transcription. His collected writings were published posthumously in 1999.
Biography
Yu Min was born in Tianjin in November 1916. In 1940, he graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University.
From 1947 to 1952, he worked at Yenching University. He became Professor of Beijing Normal University in 1953.
Yu Min died on July 2, 1995.
Major works
《古汉语里面的连音变读现象》(1948)
《论古韵合怗屑没曷五部之通转》(1948)
《后汉三国梵汉对音谱》(1979)
《连音变读》依据现代语音学理论考察古文献，归纳出同化和增音等几个类型，对古异文、古音通转和构拟都提出了新见解。
《通转》沟通音韵和语法，探讨上古汉语派生新词的模式。
《对音谱》以梵文校佛经译语,探等韵之源并摆脱其束缚,从而使古音韵研究离去玄想，脚踏实地。
《汉语的“其”跟藏语的gji》(1949)
《汉藏语虚字比较研究》(1984)
《评〈北京话单音词词汇〉》(1951)最早提出重叠式可以分开形容词和动词的界限的理论。
《中国语文论文选》
《经传释词杞记》
《俞敏语言学论文集》（商务印书馆，1999）