Robert Burton "RB" Jones (January 31, 1920 – November 23, 2007) was a linguist whose research focused on the South East Asian languages, in particular Karen, Burmese and Thai.
[1] Jones studied music as an undergraduate at Southern Methodist University, particularly focusing on the organ.
After the war he began he resumed his studies, this time at University of California, Berkeley, graduating 1947.
[1] He finished a Ph.D. in Linguistics at Berkeley in 1958 under Mary Haas.
He travelled on a Ford Foundation grant to Burma in 1957–58.