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History of Myanmar Since the early centuries of Christian records, the valley and delta of the Ayeyarwaddy have been populated by members of the Tibeto-Burman ethnic group, though initially not by the Burmans but by the Pyu. As of old, the present main settlement area of the Burmans are the valley and the delta of the Ayeyarwaddy, one of the agriculturally most fertile regions of the world. In that period the Burmans invaded the valley of the Ayeyarwaddy from a region, which today is a part of South China. www.mandalaycity.net /people.htm   (555 words)

People of South East Asia The Myanmas, also known as Bamas or Burmans, are the descendants of Tibeto-Burman speaking tribes from the highlands north of India and Yunnan that settled in the central plain in the early 9th century after the Pyu kingdom had been destroyed by the Nanzhao hegemony. The capital of the Mon kingdom, Thaton, was conquered by Burmans migrating southward in 1057. The Rakhines speak a dialect of Burman and are very similar to the Burmans in culture and dress but they have been more influenced by the proximity of India with which they have traded throughout their history. berclo.net /page00/00en-sea-people.html   (10602 words)

RCILTS, IIT Guwahati The Tanee group of languages within the Tibeto Burman subfamily is represented by Mising. It may be mentioned here that the Deuries are eesentially bilingual speakers with equal competence in Assamese.The population of Deuri is 15955 in Assam according to the 1991Census. It is spoken in the districts of Sonitpur, Jorhat, Golaghat, Lakhimpur and Dibrugarh.The Mising population in the state is 381562 (1991).They are essentially bilingual speakers with equal competene in Assamese. www.iitg.ernet.in /rcilts/tibeto_as.html   (573 words)

Search Results for Tibeto-Burman - Encyclopædia Britannica Another group of Tibeto-Burman speakers, the Burmans, also had become established in the northern dry zone. (1824–26, 1852, 1885) Conflicts between the British and the Burmans... Features an extensive image gallery of works by member photographers including Joy Gregory, Oladele Bamgboye, Clement Cooper, and Chila Burman. www.britannica.com /search?query=Tibeto-Burman&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (363 words)

Tibeto-Burman Languages Page Straightforward geographical considerations would suggest as a center of dispersal for the Tibeto-Burman languages somewhere in eastern Tibet. This page has lots of goodies, including a good outline of the Sino-Tibetan family and the Tibeto-Burman languages, and an extensive (though not comprehensive) bibliography of work on ST/TB, as well as a description of the STEDT project itself. TB languages are found from Sichuan and Qinghai in the north to the southern extremity of Myanmar, and from northwestern Vietnam in the east to northern Pakistan in the west. www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/tb.html   (363 words)

Section 3 There have been several attempts to classify the Tibeto-Burman languages, for example, Shafer (1955, 1966, 1967, 1974), Benedict (1972), Thurgood (1985) and Nishi (1990). It includes Tibetan, which is one of the two best known Tibeto-Burman languages (the other being Burmese) and West Himalayish languages, which are some of the least documented languages among the Tibeto-Burman language family. The Tibeto-Kinnauri languages considered in this monograph are Tibetan, Kinnauri, Pa tÁ www.lingfil.uu.se /personal/anjusaxena/kinnauri.html   (363 words)

Tibeto-Burman Historical Grammar The central importance of flexional morphology in Tibeto-Burman was not fully appreciated until the appearance in 1975 of James John Bauman's Pronouns and Pronominal Morphology in Tibeto-Burman. In terms of numbers of speakers, the Tibeto-Burman language family is the largest language family in the world after Indo-European. 'The Yakkha verb: interpretation and analysis of the Omruwa material (a Kiranti language of eastern Nepal)', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, LVII (2): 347-355. iias.leidenuniv.nl /host/himalaya/individ/kirmor.html   (363 words)

TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES The Tibeto-Burman family comprises a long series of dialects spoken from Tibet in the north to Burma in the south, and from the Ladkh wathrat of Kashmir in the west to the Chinese provinces of Sze-chuen and Yunnan in the east. The development 01 tones in many dialects was probably counteracted by the influence of the speech of the former inhabitants whom the Tibeto-Burman found in possession of the country when they invaded their present habitat. The same is the case with Kachin and some Nagg dialects, while the remaining Tibeto-Burman languages apparently agree with such Tibetan dialects as are devoid of tones. www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TI/TIBETO_BURMAN_LANGUAGES.htm   (363 words)

LINGUIST List 6.619: Burmese For example, under ST you have Chinese and Tibeto- Burman, and under Tibeto-Burman you have some large groupings such as Bodic and Burmic and Karenic, and under these you have various branches. *Linguistics of the Tibeto- Burman Area* 15 (1992). www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/6/6-619.html   (1159 words)

Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures Sorted by Author Linguistics of the Tibeto Burman Area, Berkeley, 11. The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in Tibeto- Burman: A case study in motivated change. Tone systems of TibetoBurman Languages of Nepal (Occasional papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto- Burman Linguistics 3), Part 4, ed. victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib/author.html   (9935 words)

Scott DeLancey's Linguistics Homepage Insun Park (1994) Grammaticalization of Verbs in Three Tibeto- Burman Languages. Anju Saxena (1992) Finite Verb Morphology in Tibeto- Kinnauri. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~delancey/prohp.html   (261 words)

Robbins Burling Linguistics of the Tibeto Burman Area (with L. Amon Phom). For a book to be edited by Jean-Louis Dessailles, Alison Wray, and Chris Knight. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/burling_robbins.html   (458 words)

STEDT: The Sino-Tibetan Family Ersu/Tosu is perhaps an indirect descendant of the extinct Xixia (=Hsi-hsia=Tangut) language, spoken in a once-powerful empire in the Tibetan-Chinese-Uighur border regions, finally destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th c. Thus, the 20,000 speakers of a certain language of Nagaland call themselves and their language Memi (and used to call themselves Imemai), but they and their language are now known to outsiders either as Mao, or as Sopvoma (the name of their principal village). A further complication is the fact that many language names are used in both a narrower and a broader sense, sometimes referring to one specific language, but often to a whole group of linguistically or culturally related languages. stedt.berkeley.edu /html/STfamily.html   (458 words)

SIL Bibliography: Language classification "Kenaboi: An extinct unclassified language of the Malay Peninsula." McElhanon, Kenneth A. "Lexicostatistics and the classification of Huon Peninsula languages." McElhanon, Kenneth A. A classification of the languages of the Morobe province, Papua New Guinea, with the linguistic situation of individual villages. www.ethnologue.com /show_subject.asp?code=LCL   (458 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. The most important of the Tibeto-Burman group are Tibetan, the dominant language of Tibet, and Burmese, the official language of Burma. Because of the clear relationship between these agreement markers and the independent pronouns, these languages are often referred to as "pronominalized." Many languages of the family are "ergative," placing case-marking on the subject of a transitive verb, rather than on the object as in most European languages, and leaving transitive objects and intransitive subjects unmarked. thor.prohosting.com /~linguist/burmese.htm   (458 words)

Sino-Tibetan languages -> Tibeto-Burman Languages on Encyclopedia.com 2002 The Tibeto-Burman languages include Tibetan, Burmese, and a number of other tongues, among which are the Bodo, Garo, and Lushai of Assam, the Kachin of Myanmar (Burma), and perhaps also the languages of the Chins and Nagas of Myanmar, the Karen tongues of Myanmar and Thailand, and the Lolo of SW China. Tibeto-Burman languages are likely to be tonal and have anywhere from two to six tones. Sino-Tibetan languages -> Tibeto-Burman Languages on Encyclopedia.com 2002 www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/SinoTibe_Tibeto-BurmanLanguages.asp   (458 words)

Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures Sorted by Author Gerard, A. A vocabulary of the Kunawar languages. 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. Language Variation: Papers on Variation and Change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in Honour of James A. Matisoff. victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib/author.html   (458 words)

Announcements in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area STEDT Monograph 3 contains phonological information on over 150 Tibeto- Burman languages and dialects, gathered from numerous published and unpublished sources. Also included are bibliographic citations and statistics relating the language names to the contents of the STEDT database. First, it will serve as a companion to forthcoming STEDT volumes, providing a key to the various transcription systems employed in the STEDT database. stedt.berkeley.edu /ltba/announce.html   (519 words)

John Benjamins: Book details for Tibeto-Burman Tonology [CILT 54] This comparative study of tonology represents a significant contribution not only to the historical-comparative study of Tibeto-Burman, but also to the larger field of linguistic theory, especially now that the subject increasingly begins to be approached along diachronic lines. This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. Tonal comparison of Lolo-Burmese with other tibeto-Burman languages www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT+54   (519 words)

Tibeto-Burman languages (from Sino-Tibetan languages) --  Encyclopædia Britannica Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma); in the Himalayas, including the countries of Nepal and Bhutan and the state of Sikkim, India; in Assam, India, and in Pakistan and Bangladesh; they also are spoken by hill tribes throughout mainland Southeast Asia and central China (the provinces of Kansu, Tsinghai, Szechwan, and Yunnan). Tibetic (or Bodic) language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family; it is spoken in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and in parts of northern India (including Sikkim). More from Britannica on "Tibeto-Burman languages (from Sino-Tibetan languages)"... www.britannica.com /eb/article-75004?tocId=75004   (519 words)

fastweb?getdoc+ericdb+ericdb+664826+18+wAAA+Birds The present volume, the third of a four-part report on the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal, includes text materials on Burung, by Warren Glover; on Tamang, by Doreen Taylor, and on Thakali, by Annemarie Hari and Anita Maibaum. For each language, a list of included texts is given, with the native language divided into sequentially-numbered sentences and followed by a literal English translation, usually morpheme-by-morpheme. Grammatical notes are included at the end of each set of texts, which explain abbreviations and letters in the literal English translation lines and any intonation symbols in the native language lines. eduref.org /plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+ericdb+ericdb+664826+18+wAAA+Birds   (519 words)

Languages of South Asia - ZOGRAPH, G.A. It concentrates on the more southern languages, i.e., Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda groups, with a brief survey of the Tibeto-Burman languages. Wraps, About fifty different languages and dialects are discussed in this survey guide of the languages of Southern Asia covering the Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan). Has index of various languages included, linguistic maps of area, and bibliography. www.antiqbook.com /boox/bok/10884.shtml   (519 words)

Articles - Sino-Tibetan languages The Kusunda language of western Nepal is often thought to a remnant of the pre-Tibetoburman indigenous languages of the southern Himalayas. Many of the languages are tonal, which however is usually considered to be an areal feature rather than evidence of a genealogical relationship. Sino-Tibetan languages form a language family of about 250 languages of East Asia, second only to Indo-European in terms of the number of speakers. gaple.com /articles/Sino-Tibetan_languages?...   (519 words)

Tibeto-Burman languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Following is a partial listing of Tibeto-Burman languages. Approximately six million Tibetans speak one of several related languages. The subfamily includes approximately 350 languages; Burmese has the most speakers (approximately 32 million). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tibeto-Burman_languages   (519 words)

Scott DeLancey Curriculum Vitae Language and Prehistory in the Americas Conference, University of Colorado, March 22-25, 1990. Proceedings of the 1993 Mid-America Linguistics Conference and Conference on Siouan/Caddoan Languages, pp. LSA Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, 1994-6 (Chair, 1995-6) Co-organizer (with Victor Golla): Comparative Penutian Workshop (University of Oregon, June 27-July 8, 1994). www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/cv.html   (519 words)

www.hani-akha.org The script for writing the Akha language is described briefly in the Akha language section. He is still a main Akha language and culture specialist and trainer (See DIARA and DORESAKA). Much of this website is in English language, but several parts are also in Akha as this website is equally made for our own people.We are also working with Thai, Chinese and Dutch translations. www.hani-akha.org /mpcd/index.html   (519 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Tibeto-Burman You have reached the page with additional Tibeto-Burman languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. Languages on this page so far are Adi, Akha, Bahing, Balti, Bantawa, Burmese, Karen, Kham, Ladakhi, Newari, and Tibeto-Burman Languages. Karen is spoken in Myanmar and in Thailand. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/otibburh.htm   (519 words)

Ethnologue report for Myanmar Speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages: 28,877,000 or 78% of the population, Daic languages 2,778,900 or 9.6%, Austro-Asiatic languages 1,934,900 or 6.7%, Hmong-Mien languages 6,000 (1991 J. Matisoff). Of those, 108 are living languages and 1 is extinct. Other Chin languages or dialects of this area are Saizang, Teizang, Zo (Zome). www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Myanmar   (519 words)

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