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	Burmese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burmese is a member of the Tibeto-Burman languages, which is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
		Burmese monks may speak to fellow monks using Pali, and it is expected of faithful Burmese Buddhists to have a basic knowledge of Pali.
		The syllable structure of Burmese is C(G)V((V)C), which is to say the onset consists of a consonant optionally followed by a glide, and the rhyme consists of a monophthong alone, a monophthong with a consonant, or a diphthong with a consonant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burmese_language (1186 words)

	AllRefer.com - Burmese (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Burmese, language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages).
		Burmese can be described as monosyllabic because root words generally consist of a single syllable.
		Burmese has its own alphabet, which is ultimately descended from an old script from S India.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Burmese.html (249 words)

	BURMA - LoveToKnow Article on BURMA
		Burmese, which was spoken by 7,006,495 people in the province in 1901, is a monosyllabic language, with, according to some authorities, three different tones; so that any given syllable may have three entirely different meanings only distinguishable by the intonation when spoken, or by accents or diacritical marks when written.
		The Burmese are fond of bright colors, and pink and yellow harmonize well with their dark olive complexion, but even here the influence of western civilization is being felt, and in the towns the tendency now is towards maroon, brown, olive and dark green for the womens skirts.
		In 1795 the Burmese were involved in a dispute with the British in India, in consequence of their troops, to the amount of 5000 men, entering the district of Chittagong in pursuit of three robbers who had fled from justice across the frontier.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURMA.htm (12417 words)

	Alphabet
		Alphabet of Thorn Alphabet of Thorn is a Patricia A. McKillip, ISBN 0441011306.
		Coptic alphabet The Coptic alphabet is an Egyptian alphabet.
		It is the alphabet that was used by the Ethiopic alphabets.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/alphabet.html (1663 words)

	Burmese language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Burmese language (ဗမာစာ, or bama sa) is the official language of (A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal) Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).
		Burmese is a member of the (A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay peninsula) Tibeto-Burman languages, which is a subfamily of the (The family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia) Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
		The (The order of words in a text) word order of the Burmese language is (The subject matter of a conversation or discussion) subject- (A tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow) object- (A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence) verb.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Bu/Burmese_language.htm (998 words)

	Encyclopedia: Burmese language
		The Burmese language (á—áá¬áá¬, or bama sa) is the official language of Myanmar (known until 1989 as Burma).
		See main article Burmese alphabet The Burmese alphabet is a script in the Brahmic family used in Myanmar for writing in Burmese.
		The vowels of Burmese are: In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Burmese-language (2988 words)

	Einführung in den Gebrauch neuer Medien für Südostasienstudien
		Burmese, the official language, is spoken by the great majority of the poulation, including many of the non-Burman ethnic minorities.
		The texts are taken from Burmese folk tales or the Hindu Ramayana, interspersed with comic or satirical skits; the musical accompaniment comes from an orchestra of tuned gongs, bamboo clappers, bamboo xylophone, cymbals, and hne (a six-reeded oboe).
		The Toungoo Dynasty In the second quarter of the 16th century, a new Burmese dynasty emerged from the sleepy principality of Toungoo in central Burma.
	www.kefk.net /SOAS/Prototypen/WS9697/Birma/encarta.html (5561 words)

	netcyclo: Burmese
		Burmese belongs to the Lolo-Burmese sub-branch of of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
		Burmese is an analytic language which means that grammatical functions are expressed by word order and by particles that follow nouns and verbs rather than by inflections as is the case in Indo-European languages.
		Although Burmese belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, Burmese script is an adaptation of the Mon script, which in turn derived from Pali - the language of Theravada Buddhism, and ultimately from the Brahmi script India.
	www.netcyclo.com /lang/natlangs/sinotibe/tibeburm/loloburm/burmese/burmese.htm (751 words)

	Burmese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While this phenomenon has yet to be studied in detail in the family as a whole, it is widespread in both Tibeto-Burman and Chinese languages, and is clearly present in the oldest reconstructible forms of Chinese, and thus apparently was a feature of Proto-Sino-Tibetan.
		Burmese itself is spoken by about three-fourths of the population of Burma, or about 30 million people.
		The distinctive Burmese alphabet consists almost entirely of circles or portions of circles used in various combinations.
	thor.prohosting.com /~linguist/burmese.htm (1326 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		Burmese, along with Tibetan, the dominant language of Tibet, is one of the two most important languages of the Tibeto-Burman branch, which includes an undetermined number of smaller languages spoken in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, northern and western Thailand, and the Yunnan and Sichuan (Szechwan) provinces of China (Ehrhardt, 1998).
		Standard Burmese evolved from a 'central' dialect spoken by the Burman population of the lower valleys of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers.
		Burmese is an SOV language, or more precisely a verb-final language, which essentially means that the (main) verb - usually followed by one or more particles with grammatical as well as discourse functions - occupies the final position in the sentence or clause.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=72 (2051 words)

	Burmese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Burmese is spoken by about 30 million people in Myanmar, where it is the principal and official language.
		Burmese is a monosyllabic language, and is similar to other Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken in South-Central Asia.
		The Burmese alphabet is originally derived from Southern Indian script.
	www.asianabsolute.co.uk /language-sea/burmese.html (73 words)

	Burmese Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters —basic writtensymbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		Notable exceptions are the Braille alphabet, Morse Code and the cuneiform alphabetof the ancient city of Ugarit.
		Among alphabets, one may distinguish abjads, which only record consonants ; alphabets which record consonants and vowels separately, called simply alphabets and first developed by the Greeks ; and abugidas, in which the vowels are indicated by systematicmodification of the form of the consonants.
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/32615-burmese%20alphabet.html (376 words)

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		As in the case of all Burmese ceremonies it begins with the issue of invitations by the head of the household to relations and friends.
		The Sunday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Rahu planets are considered by the Burmese to be Malefics, or planets with an evil influence, and the Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday planets are considered to be Benefics, or planets with a benign influence.
		The Burmese chronicles always mention the particular day of the week on which each king was born, and until the last two decades the name of a Burmese indicated upon which day of the week he was born.
	www.buddhism.ndirect.co.uk /phyakozu.htm (3848 words)

	Burmese Labour Solidarity Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The organizers of this group are former Burmese student leaders, many of who have been in the border area for over a decade, since the Burmese junta cracked down on the 1988 democracy movement.
		One of the committee members, Ko Phyo, was severely beaten by the Burmese Army, injured so extensively that after he made it back across the border into Thailand, he spent several weeks in a Thai hospital recovering from injuries to his jaw.
		Under the guidance of two teachers and a headmaster they were studying the Burmese alphabet, English, Burmese culture and history, mathematics and arts and crafts.
	www.caprn.bc.ca /linkedmaterials/burma/ngo_blso.html (1368 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Burmese Burmese, language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages).
		Burmese can be described as monosyllabic because root words generally consist of...
		Thai kingdoms were established there in the latter 14th cent., and in art and architecture Thai and Burmese models were followed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Burmese+alphabet (478 words)

	Burmese language - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The Burmese language is the official language of Myanmar(former Burma).
		The language utilises the Burmese script, and derives from the Mon script, which ultimately comes from Pali.
		The standard dialect of Burmese comes from Rangoon, but there are several distinctive dialects in Upper Burma and Lower Burma.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Burmese_language (810 words)

	BURMA - Online Information article about BURMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		gay and lively disposition the Burmese have been called " the Irish of the East," and like the Irish they are somewhat inclined to laziness.
		stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)
		The Burmese are really as de-voted to demonolatry as the hill-tribes who are labelled plain spirit-worshippers.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BUN_CAL/BURMA.html (5777 words)

	OHCHR: Burmese/Myanmar () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Native speakers of Burmese seldom speak a second indigenous language.
		Conversely, Burmese is the second language of many educated speakers of other languages.
		Burmese is in fact the language of education and the media, of business and administration and of communication between ethnic groups.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/bms.htm (159 words)

	Indochina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Burmese came from the area where China and Tibet meet and arrived in AD 638, the year from which their era is dated.
		The Burmese Communist Party, which had Chinese funding, took control of parts of the north, the KNLA the southeast and the Kachin Independence Army the northeast.
		For instance, 'A', the last letter of the Burmese alphabet, is used for the names of people born on a Sunday.
	www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/Orient/Indochina/Burma.htm (898 words)

	Selection of Articles / tawsein.htm
		Under Burmese rule three per cent of the population of Upper Burma were monks, and in Mandalay itself there were 13,227 members of the Order, or about eight per cent of the total population.
		It is also quite probable that the Burmese received their new era direct from the Chinese, one of the acts of suzeraianty of the Chinese government being to distribute copies of the Chinese calendar among tributary States.
		Under the Burmese regime, the crowning, by commoners, of a pagoda built by a royal personage, would be considered to be high treason, and the concession of this privilege is now greatly appreciated throughout the Province.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /buddhism/tawsein.htm (10415 words)

	THE INTRODUCTION OF BUDDHISM INTO BURMA
		The Burmese alphabet is almost the same as the Talaing, and the circular form of both strongly indicates the influence of the Singalese, or the Tamulic type of letter."— Fytche's Burma Past and Present, Vol.
		At the same time, Burmese writers are not willing to acknowledge their indebtedness to the Talaings, whom they had conquered, for their knowledge of Buddhism.
		The Burmese Pantheon of the 37 Nats, whose images are in the Shwezigon Pagoda at Pagan, only dates from the reign of Thinligyaung (344-387 A.D.) The Bon religion was superseded by the Mahayana School with its Sanskrit Scriptures, which, in its turn, had to give way, in the sixth century A.
	www.triplegem.plus.com /tawsein5.htm (4378 words)

	THE MON
		The Mon language is a distant relative of the Khamer (Cambodia) langauge group, having no similarities with Burmese and the Burmese alphabet is based on the Mon alphabet.
		After successive waves of Burman and Thai immigrations from the north in the last milenia, and after repeated attacks the kingdom of the peaceful Mons was defeated in 1757 and the higher culture taken as war booty to upper Burma by the Burmese king and many hundred thaunsand of Mon jhad been facing genocide.
		MON refugees seeking sanctuary in Thailand from the civil war Burma are being harassed by Thai authorities to facilitate the construction of an oil pipeline between the two countries, according to US refugee workers in Bangkok and Mon relief officials.
	www.indians.org /welker/mons.htm (1220 words)

	Burmese alphabet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Burmese alphabet is a script in the (Click link for more info and facts about Brahmic family) Brahmic family used in (A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal) Myanmar for writing in (A native or inhabitant of Myanmar) Burmese.
		The characters are rounded in appearance, because the traditional (Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves) palm leaves used for writing would have been ripped by straight lines.
		The (Click link for more info and facts about Unicode) Unicode range for Burmese (Myanmar) is U+1000...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/burmese_alphabet.htm (384 words)

	Wierus Occult Antiques.
		The kammavaca (or kamawa-sa) are among the most sacred of Burmese religious texts, containing selections from the Vinaya that provides rules for the monastic system.
		The language is Pali, the language of the historical Buddha, used in the most essential documents of Theravada Buddhism, but written in a Burmese script, used almost exclusively for kammavaca manuscripts, called magyi zi (‘tamarind seed’), from the resemblance of the letters to the dark brown, glossy seeds of the tree.
		As it is customary, each leaf is numbered on one of the margins, with red lacquer in round script, by a letter in conjunction with a vowel of the Burmese alphabet.
	www.wierus.com /catalog/burma2 (838 words)

	humanitarian action : a documentary approach : johanna pemberton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their father was fleeing political persecution because he was involved in student uprisings against the Burmese military dictatorship.
		To me, the Burmese alphabet looks like semi-circles that are connected by curved lines.
		Everyone speaks Burmese to her at home and at the cousin's house she stays at during the day while her sisters are at school.
	aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu /focus/humanitarian/docprojects/johannapemberton.html (781 words)

	Vol 12. No. 5, May 2004 - Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Works from his last years are especially spectacular: Burmese alphabet, Pali mantras, the Buddha’s profile, magical squares (called “in”) and references to numerology, all represented alongside each other in striking shades of ink and “magic pen”.
		Aung Soe’s works are monologues which discourse on the objectives of the modern Burmese artist of the 20th century: to assimilate foreign influences without renouncing cultural identity; to accept the challenge of contemporary Western art whose values contradict the very essence of local artistic traditions.
		But to preserve the integrity and future of Burmese art, it is hoped that the existing pool of talent would aim to develop original artistic idioms which speak to the international audience without forsaking their Burmese origins, to blossom in the spirit of independent creation in spite of trying socio-economic conditions.
	www.irrawaddy.org /database/2004/vol12.5/culture.html (1196 words)

	TIME Magazine: Traveler
		Burmese entrepreneurs have discovered that Orwell's sordid tale about a colonial-era community in Upper Burma is eagerly snapped up by foreign tourists.
		To amplify matters, the Burmese drive by the horn, and the sound of their honking—more a stutter of warning than a bellow of outrage—fills the air.
		The novel has never been translated into Burmese but, I was told, it was sometimes referred to in the official government newspaper when a point needs to be made about the humiliation endured during colonial times.
	www.time.com /time/asia/traveler/021017/orwell.html (6447 words)

	Burmese
		Burmese - English Translation: Professional Translators for all 14 languages of India; Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi,
		India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Thailand and China are other countries where Burmese speakers live.
		It evolved at a time when writing was done on palm leaves, the straight lines were impossible as they would cause the leaf to split.
	www.deeptrans.com /deeptrans/burmese.html (147 words)

	Alphabets - Burmese Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		he Burmese characters are used to transcribe the spoken language until the China frontiers, in the region of Oriental India.
		The Burmese inherited his writing from the Mon people after having invaded his territory in 1057, this people definitely disappeared in1540 of our time.
		Despite of the Mon and Burmese language conferred to the characters different phonetic values, to writings are similar, the Burmese alphabet can be used to transcribe texts in Mon.
	www.imultimedia.pt /museuvirtpress/ing/alfa/v3.html (73 words)

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