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Burmish languages

Index Burmish languages

The Burmish languages are Burmese, including Standard Burmese, Arakanese and other Burmese dialects such as the Tavoyan dialects as well as non-literary languages spoken across Myanmar and South China such as Achang, Lhao Vo, Lashi, and Zaiwa. [1]

33 relations: Achang language, Achang people, Arakanese language, Burmese language, Burmo-Qiangic languages, Central Tibeto-Burman languages, Chashan language, Danu language, Gong language, Hpon language, Intha dialect, Jingpo people, Languages of China, Languages of Myanmar, Lashi language, Lhao Vo language, List of contemporary ethnic groups, List of indigenous peoples, Lolo-Burmese languages, Loloish languages, Middle Burmese, Myeik dialect, Old Burmese, Pela language, Ramree dialect, Shan people, Sino-Tibetan languages, Tavoyan dialects, Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Kanauri languages, William Cornyn, Yaw dialect, Zaiwa language.

Achang language

The Achang language (autonym) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Achang (also known as Maingtha and Ngochang) in Yunnan, China.

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Achang people

The Achang, also known as the Ngac'ang (their own name) or Maingtha (မိုင်းသာလူမျိုး) are an ethnic group.

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Arakanese language

Arakanese (also known as Rakhine; ရခိုင်ဘာသာ, MLCTS: ra.hkuing bhasa) is a language closely related to Burmese, of which it is often considered a dialect.

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Burmese language

The Burmese language (မြန်မာဘာသာ, MLCTS: mranmabhasa, IPA) is the official language of Myanmar.

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Burmo-Qiangic languages

The Burmo-Qiangic or Eastern Tibeto-Burman languages are a proposed family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Southwest China and Myanmar.

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Central Tibeto-Burman languages

Central Tibeto-Burman or Central Trans-Himalayan is a proposed branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family proposed by Scott DeLancey (2015) on the basis of shared morphological evidence.

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Chashan language

Chashan 茶山 (autonym) is a Burmish language spoken in Pianma Township 片马镇, Lushui County, Yunnan, China, in Xiapianma 下片马, Gangfang 岗房, and Gulang 古浪 villages (Dai, et al. 2009).

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Danu language

Danu is a Burmic language of Shan State, Burma.

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Gong language

The Gong language (also 'Ugong, Ugong, Lawa, or Ugawng, with U- meaning 'person') is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Western Thailand, spoken in isolated pockets in Uthai Thani and Suphanburi provinces.

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Hpon language

Hpon (Hpun) is a moribund Burmish language spoken by older adults in the gorges of the upper Irrawaddy River of Burma, north of Bhamo.

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Intha dialect

The Intha dialect of Burmese is spoken by the Intha people, a group of Bamar descendants who migrated to Inle Lake in Shan State.

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Jingpo people

The Jingpo people are an ethnic group who are the largest subset of the Kachin peoples, which largely inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Myanmar's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province of China and India's Arunachal Pradesh, which is claimed by China.

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Languages of China

The languages of China are the languages that are spoken in China.

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Languages of Myanmar

There are approximately a hundred languages spoken in Myanmar (also known as Burma).

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Lashi language

Lashi (endonym Lacid) is a Burmish language.

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Lhao Vo language

Lhao Vo, also known as Maru and Langsu, is a Burmish language of Burma with a few thousand speakers in China.

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List of contemporary ethnic groups

The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.

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List of indigenous peoples

This is a partial list of the world's indigenous / aboriginal / native people.

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Lolo-Burmese languages

The Lolo-Burmese languages (also Burmic languages) of Burma and Southern China form a coherent branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.

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Loloish languages

The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi (Bradley 1997) or Nisoic (Lama 2012), are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China.

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Middle Burmese

Middle Burmese was a form of the Burmese language spoken from the 16th century to the 18th century.

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Myeik dialect

The Myeik dialect, also known as Beik in Burmese, Mergui and Merguese in English, and Marit (มะริด) in Thai, is a divergent dialect of Burmese, spoken in Myeik, the second largest town in Tanintharyi Region, the southernmost region of Burma.

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Old Burmese

Old Burmese was an early form of the Burmese language, as attested in the stone inscriptions of Pagan, and is the oldest phase of Burmese linguistic history.

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Pela language

Pela or Bola (autonym:, exonym) is a Burmish language of western Yunnan, China.

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Ramree dialect

Ramree, or Yangbye ("Rambray" in Arakanese)(ရမ်းဗြဲဘာသာစကား), is the main dialect spoken in Southern Arakan, especially in Ramree Island region, Arakan State in Burma (Myanmar), and the Awagyun Island and southern coastal regions in Bangladesh.

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Shan people

The Shan (တႆး;, ရှမ်းလူမျိုး;; ไทใหญ่ or ฉาน) are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.

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Sino-Tibetan languages

The Sino-Tibetan languages, in a few sources also known as Trans-Himalayan, are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.

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Tavoyan dialects

The Tavoyan or Dawei dialect of Burmese is spoken in Dawei (Tavoy), in the coastal Tanintharyi Region of southern Myanmar (Burma).

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Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the highlands of Southeast Asia as well as certain parts of East Asia and South Asia.

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Tibeto-Kanauri languages

The Tibeto-Kanauri languages, also called Bodic, Bodish–Himalayish, and Western Tibeto-Burman, are a proposed intermediate level of classification of the Sino-Tibetan languages, centered on the Tibetic languages and the Kinnauri dialect cluster.

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William Cornyn

William Stewart Cornyn (1906–1971) was a Canadian-born American linguist and author, noted for his expertise in Burmese and Russian language studies, as well as for his research on Athabaskan and Burman etymology.

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Yaw dialect

The Yaw dialect of Burmese is spoken by 20,000 people near the Chin Hills in Magway Division, particularly in Gangaw District, which comprises Saw, Htilin, and Gangaw.

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Zaiwa language

Zaiwa (autonym:; Tsaiwa, Tsaiva, 载瓦) is a Burmish language spoken in parts of China and Burma.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmish_languages

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