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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 Pāli, and it is expected of faithful Burmese Buddhists to have a basic knowledge of Pāli.
		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 (2114 words)

	Burmese
		The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of the Chinese, or Sinitic, languages (dialects), all spoken in China, and several hundred Tibeto-Burman languages spoken as far west as Pakistan and as far east as Vietnam.
		Aside from the dominant languages of Tibet and Burma, the Tibeto-Burman branch includes an undetermined number of smaller languages spoken in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh, northern and western Thailand, and the Yunnan and Sichuan (Szechwan) provinces of China.
		The Kamarupan branch includes languages spoken in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Mizoram in India; the most important are the Bodo-Garo languages of Assam, the Kuki-Chin languages of India, Bangladesh, and western Burma, and the Naga languages of Arunachal Pradesh.
	thor.prohosting.com /~linguist/burmese.htm (1326 words)

	Burmese
		Burmese belongs to the Lolo-Burmese sub-branch of of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
		Burmese is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
		Burmese Language Leassons from the SEAsite of Northern Illinois University
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may/Burmese.html (835 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)

	Linguistics Language Program - LING 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Burmese language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
		Burmese is related to Tibetan, and has a grammar and syntax quite unlike those of western languages.
		It is a tone language, that is, the use of musical pitch or tones, of which Burmese has three, help to differentiate the meanings words.
	ling.ucsd.edu /courses/ling19/ling19langdis/burmese.htm (107 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).
		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.
		Burmese or Myanmar language is the official national language of the Union of Myanmar, previously known as Burma.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=72&menu=004 (2051 words)

	Burmese language - Simple English Wikipedia
		Burmese (in Burmese ba-ma-sa, pronounced /baa-MAA-saa/) is a language spoken in Myanmar.
		Burmese ia Sino-Tibetan language, meaning that is close to Chinese and Tibetan.
		Burmese has a lot of English and Indian words.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burmese_language (135 words)

	The Burmese Piano Music of U Ko Ko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		All Burmese instruments that are capable of producing more than one tone simultaneously, make use of a formal stucture in which the melodic line is supported by a second consonant pitch at appropriate points in the composition.
		The two main traditional ensembles for Burmese music are the the gong and drum ensemble, the hsaing(138k) and the chamber ensemble, in which the Burmese harp, saung gauk,(163K) and the bambo xylophone, patala are used prominently.
		The language of musical associations is very rich and was a important factor in the manner in which the piano was adopted for the playing of Burmese music for the silent films.
	research.umbc.edu /efhm/garfias/burma1.html (1749 words)

	Theme - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His 'The Burmese face of Myazedi inscription at Pagan'(Epigraphia Birmanica, 1, pp 1-46) is still considered the key to understanding Burmese at its origins.
		However, the circle of Burmese Studies was to remain narrow and restricted to a few specialists for some decades, the main reason being undoubtedly that the language was not taught in an official institution or university.
		A recurring question that we have asked students is 'what made you choose Burmese?' Among the reasons most frequently cited, was the attraction to a genuinely original society that is so deeply and harmoniously influenced by Buddhism in its daily life, but also in possession of an exceptionally rich culture.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/25/theme/25T8.html (1334 words)

	Burmese Translation - Translate Burmese Language Translator
		The Burmese language (, or bama sa) is the official language of Myanmar (known until 1989 as Burma).
		Burmese is the mother tongue of the Bamar, Rakhine, and Danu.
		Burmese is a tonal language, with four main tones.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/burmese.shtml (286 words)

	Myanmar - Burmese peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Burmese are mongoloid peoples speaking a language of the tibeto-burmese group, and represent 75% of the population, and up to 80% when including Arakans, who speak the same language but were more or less influenced by Islam, and Tenasserim Mo^ns, who speak a mo^n-khmer language and greatly influenced the Burmese civilization.
		Chin tribes (400, 000?) are also of tibeto-burmese language but remain very primitive, and their dialects differ from one valley to the other.
		Maong Sat, brother-in-law of the Burmese king, ethnic Mon and governor of Syriam, was proclaimed king (1826).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/mm-tribe.html (1536 words)

	Rehmonnya.org
		Burmese is taught as a subject in all schools.
		Mon language and literature is the main subject of the Mon schools and other subjects such as geography, history, science, mathematics and etc., are taught by Mon language.
		When the Burmese troops came into the area and there was less protection for the Mon teachers, the soldiers put their teachers and forced the Mon teachers to share teaching time for them.
	www.rehmonnya.org /report_detail.php?ID=13 (7137 words)

	Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures Sorted by Language
		Burmese as a lingua franca (and associated map, #87), pp 745-747 of Atlas of languages used for intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas, edited by S. Wurm, P. MhlhSusler, and D. Tryon, Vol.
		The Arakanese dialect of Burmese and Proto-Burmish reconstruction.
		Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, ed by David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood.
	victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib/language.html (9886 words)

	Myanmar/Burmese script and pronunciation
		The Myanmar or Burmese script developed from the Mon script, which was adapted from a southern Indian script during the 8th century.
		Myanmar is a tonal language with three main tones (high, low and creaky) and two other tones (stopped and reduced).
		The Karen languages, a group of languages which are related to Myanmar and which are are spoken by around 4 million people in Myanmar and Thailand.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/burmese.htm (217 words)

	Burmese (from Tibeto-Burman languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Burmese and the closely related Lolo dialects belong, together with the Kachinish and Kukish languages of Myanmar and neighbouring countries, to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan...
		The Burmese is a compactly built cat with a small, rounded head and wide-set, round, yellow or golden eyes.
		The stone inscription is the oldest form of Burmese literature; the date of the earliest extant specimen is 1113.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-75052 (733 words)

	Vol 11. No. 8, October 2003 - Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Said to be the oldest literary vernacular among Burmese languages, Mon is of the Mon-Khmer linguistic group.
		While the Burmese language is considered a derivative of Tibeto-Burman, its script borrows heavily from Mon as well.
		Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke about the restrictions on language rights for the Mon in an address to the UN Commission on Human Rights in April 2000.
	www.irrawaddy.org /database/2003/vol11.8/culture.html (2061 words)

	Voice Of God Recordings, Inc. - A Ministry of William Branham
		The Burmese language is the official language of Myanmar (known until 1989 as Burma).
		It is spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and is spoken as a second language by minorities in Burma, such as the Chinese, Indian, Karen, Mon, and Shan.
		The purpose of his visit was to record seven new Messages in the Burmese language.
	www.branham.org /BranhamDefault.asp?Home=Blog_pages&LoadPageDetail=AnotherNewLanguage_120505.htm (142 words)

	James A. Matisoff
		Institute for the Study of the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo).
		Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
		Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphbere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff.
	stedt.berkeley.edu /Matisoff/JAMpubs.html (4275 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Burmese are originally from the hills of Tibet in western China.
		The Burmese spend their lives trying to appease the nats so that they will be protected from any other evil spirits that may seek to harm them.
		the Burmese Shan of Myanmar; the Burmese of Bangladesh, the U.K. India, Malaysia, and Myanmar.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code2/142.html (797 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:mya
		Merguese (Mergui, Beik), Yaw, Danu (Taruw), Burmese, Palaw.
		Native speakers of Burmese seldom speak a second indigenous language.
		Hopple, Paulette M. The structure of nominalization in Burmese.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=mya (115 words)

	Burmese Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The script lessons are designed for beginning Myanmar learners who want to achieve the basic skills of reading and writing Myanmar scripts.
		The beginning lessons are designed for Myanmar language learners who want to learn the basic skills of reading, writing and speaking the language after having completed the "Script" lessons.
		The lessons at this level are designed for learners who want to achieve more advanced skills of reading, writing and speaking the language.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Burmese/language.htm (74 words)

	Burma Days in Oslo
		The salient features of the new education system were precedence of science subjects and the use of the Burmese language as the medium of instruction without consideration for indigenous vernacular languages for those children whose mother tongue was not Burmese.
		The language policy applied by the military regime has been to Burmanise at the expense of the language and culture of other indigenous nationalities.
		Koskinen, A. (1995) ‘Language Policy towards Ethnic Minorities in Northern Norway and on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua’ in Int.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/Educational_Cost_of_Army_Rule.htm (4331 words)

	Jon Fernquest's Literature and Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In creating this site I was thinking mainly of motivated amateurs who study a language, literature, or history of a culture for its own sake and who might not have access to adequate university libraries.
		The Tai Lue are lowland rice cultivators spread throughout the Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia from the Sipsongpanna area of China to Muang Yawng in Burma, to Muang Sing in Laos, all the way to Maesai and Chiangkham in Thailand.
		Although some are politically or economically superior, I regard the ancient cultural heritages, languages, and literatures of all these groups as equally worthy of preservation.
	www.angelfire.com /linux/jfernquest (382 words)

	Burmese translation, English to Burmese translation, Burmese to English translation, Burmese web site translation, ...
		Whether you are a Burmese company hoping to break into the English speaking market or you have a product to sell to Burma, WTB Language Group can help you.
		Professional translators whose native language is Burmese perform our English to Burmese translation.
		They have in-depth understanding of the subject matter and solid mastering of the Burmese language including its spelling, grammar, and cultural appropriateness.
	www.wintranslation.com /languages/burmese.html (307 words)

	Burmese on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BURMESE [Burmese] language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages).
		Burmese seeking U.S. asylum held in custody, limbo in Guam.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
		Burmese girls looking at a scene depicting the life of Buddha.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/burmese.asp (1117 words)

	Burmese -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		He also wrote a Burmese dictionary that is still a standard work.
		Includes details on their oppression by the Burmese government, struggle, political organizations, and refugee camps in Thailand.
		Includes her own writings and press reports, awards and honours that she had bagged, interviews, transcripts of her letters that appeared in the press, and the international responses towards her eforts for a 'Free Burma'.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310466 (586 words)

	Democratic Voice of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Apr 4, 2005 (DVB) - A new Burmese language school named “Dawn” was opened in Kuopio, Finland on 3 April by the CDB, Campaign for Democracy in Burma (Finland).
		According to a statement issued on the same day, “Burmese children who have registered to attend the school, their parents, and Burmese teachers, other Burmese and Finnish residents of Kuopio” participated in the opening ceremony.
		The Head teacher Myat Thit told DVB that he opened the school because he wants to teach and the necessity to teach exiled Burmese children their mother tongue and writing, maths, and history and traditions of Burma, free of charge.
	english.dvb.no /news.php?id=4413 (162 words)

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