Burmese
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"The Burmese language (Burmese: မွနျမာဘာသာ; pronounced [mjəm? b???]; MLCTS: myanma bhasa) is the official language of Burma. Although the constitution officially recognizes it as the Myanmar language,[1] most English speakers continue to refer to the language as Burmese. Burmese is the native language of the Bamar and related sub-ethnic groups of the Bamar, as well as that of some ethnic minorities in Burma like the Mon. Burmese is spoken by 32 million as a first language and as a second language by 10 million, particularly ethnic minorities in Burma and those in neighboring countries.
Burmese is a tonal, pitch-register, and syllable-timed language,[2] largely monosyllabic and analytic language, with a subject–object–verb word order. It is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family, which is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. The language uses the Burmese script, derived from the Old Mon script and ultimately from the Brāhmī script..."
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Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-31
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Burmese
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Those interested, contact Dr Justin Watkins for more information: [email protected]
Source/publisher:
School of Oriental and African Studies
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Burmese
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English
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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Contains background information on the Burmese language, index of books and guides.
Source/publisher:
School of Oriental and African Studies
Date of entry/update:
2010-12-07
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Burmese
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English
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In Australia, Burma, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA.
Source/publisher:
SOAS
Date of entry/update:
2010-10-03
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Burmese
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English
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Source/publisher:
wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2013-12-22
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Burmese, Languages of Burma/Myanmar
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Source/publisher:
Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2011-12-31
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Burmese
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Burmese
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Source/publisher:
Northern Illinois University
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Burmese
Language:
English
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Linguistic Papers:
* Topicalization in Burmese Expository Text;
* Nominalization Template in Burmese;
* Abstract- Nominalization in Burmese;
Doctoral Dissertation ?
* The Structure of Nominalization in Burmese...
Overview PowerPoint Presentation of Key Points of Dissertation:
· Ontological Nominalization.
Paulette Hopple
Source/publisher:
Summer Institute of LInguistics
Date of entry/update:
2003-09-30
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Burmese
Language:
English, Burmese
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The SEAlang Library was established in 2005, with primary funding from the U.S. Department of Education's TICFIA program, and matching funds from CRCL Inc. The Library provides language reference materials for Southeast Asia, with an initial focus on the non-roman script languages used throughout the mainland. These include:
- bilingual and monolingual dictionaries (linked via: D),
- monolingual text corpora and aligned bitext corpora (linked via: C, B),
- a variety of tools for manipulating, searching, and displaying complex scripts. .... Thai; Burmese; Khmer; Lao; Shan; Karen; Mon; Vietnamese
Source/publisher:
S. E. A .L. A. N. G.
Date of entry/update:
2009-04-09
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Language:
English, Burmese, Karen, Mon, Shan etc.
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234 results, March 2012
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SIL International
Date of entry/update:
2012-03-04
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Burmese
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English
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Part 1: Burmese language study material - Introduction
Learning Burmese
(renamed "Myanmar" in 1989).
A provisional list of study materials and teaching centres first compiled by John Okell, SOAS, London, spring 1997, and now maintained by Justin Watkins at SOAS. This list is described as "provisional" because it includes only materials and centres known to the compiler...Pages maintained by Justin Watkins: [email protected]
Source/publisher:
School of Oriental and African Studies
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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English
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"More than 2 thousand Shan-Burmese vocabularies; fruit names, vegetable and food names, flowers, plants, numbers, currency, people characteristics, ...."
Source/publisher:
Kham Koo Website
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-29
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Individual Documents
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Tai-Kadai languages: Shan, Burmese
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16.97 MB
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"curriculum text book for the military college's students to study Shan Language, the text book had written into two languages Shan and Burmese...."
Source/publisher:
Kham Koo Website
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-29
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Individual Documents
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Tai-Kadai languages: Shan, Burmese
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Abstract: "Burmese has a documented history of one thousand years, and from the very
first texts shows influence from foreign languages,
especially in its
vocabulary. Much less evidence of foreign influence
is found in the
grammatical structure of Burmese, though a closer look reveals some phrase
structures that look rather un-Burmese and seem to
be pattern replications
from a non-verb-final language, such as Mon. The regular use of
postpositional grammatical markers especially in the written language,
probably in indigenous feature of Burmese, may have
been reinforced by
literary contact with Pali.
Foreign elements in Burmese are important indicators of the
development of the language and contact with other
cultures. They not only
tell us something about which cultures Burmese was
in contact with, but also
about the period and kind of contact. Three main sources of foreign elements
in Burmese can be identified, namely early Indian (Pali and Sanskrit), early
Mon, English, together with various more recent sources, including new Indo-
Aryan languages, Malay, Chinese varieties, and others. This study takes the
linguistic evidence, together with what is known of
the history of the involved
languages and peoples, to draw a picture of contact
scenarios into which the
Burmese language and culture entered over the past
one thousand years.
The Myanmar-English Dictionary
by the Myanmar Language
Commission (1993) identifies a large number of loan
words in Burmese and
indicates the source language, together with a more
or less accurate
transcription of the original form of the respective words, either in Burmese
script (for Sanskrit, Pali, Mon, and Shan) or in Romanized transcription (for
all other languages, including Hindi).".....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015.
Mathias Jenny
Source/publisher:
International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015
Date of publication:
2015-07-26
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-11
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Individual Documents
Category:
Languages of Burma - general, Burmese, International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies (ICBMS) 23-26 July, 2015
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English
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This article deals with the nature and the effects of the long period of linguistic contact between Burmese and English. Part 1 deals with general issues of contact and borrowing; part 2 provides examples of English loanwords in Burmese, and considers the processes of phonological and semantic accommodation that they reflect.
Julian Wheatley, San San Hnin Tun
Source/publisher:
Journal of Burma Studies Vol. 4 (1999)
Date of publication:
1998-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2009-03-10
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Burmese
Language:
English, Burmese
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"It was probably Kinwun Mingyi's visit and embassy to Paris which revealed the existence
of a far eastern country called Burma to the French public of the 1870's. Apart from the
interest and curiosity King Mindon's envoy undoubtedly aroused, it seems reasonable to
assert that the French scholarly interest for the field of Burmese Studies dates back to
the late nineteenth and early twentieth century..."
Marie-Helene Cardinaud
Source/publisher:
Newsletter, Issue 25, International Insittute for Asian Studies (Leiden)
Date of publication:
2001-09-30
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Burmese
Language:
English
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