• The Burmish languages are a subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan languages consisting of Burmese (including Standard Burmese, Arakanese, and other Burmese dialects...
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    Lolo-Burmese Mru Core Lolo-Burmese Ugong–Burmish Ugong Burmish Loloish (Ngwi) Lama (2012), in a study of 36 languages, finds the Mondzish cluster (Mondzi–Maang...
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  • Lacid) is a Burmish language. Although the endonym Lashi is often used by Western researchers, the people refer to themselves and their language as Lacid...
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  • it with the Burmish languages. The Tujia language is difficult to classify due to divergent vocabulary. Other unclassified Loloish languages are Gokhy (Gɔkhý)...
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    an invasion by Nanzhao that shattered the Pyu city-states. Other Burmish languages are still spoken in Dehong Prefecture in the far west of Yunnan. By...
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  • Kukish languages (Kuki–Naga plus perhaps the Karbi language, the Meitei language and the Mru language); and the Burmish languages (Lolo-Burmese languages, perhaps...
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    Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the Southern Burmish branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages. Burmese is the most widely spoken of the Tibeto-Burman languages and...
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  • dialects, northern and southern. The language was phonologically more conservative than other 'Kachinised' Burmish languages. Hpon at Ethnologue (18th ed.,...
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  • Zaiwa (autonym: tsau³¹va⁵¹; 载瓦; Burmese: ဇိုင်ဝါး/အဇီး) is a Burmish language spoken in parts of southwest China and eastern Burma. There are around 100...
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    Bamar people (category CS1 Burmese-language sources (my))
    Bamar's northern origins are evidenced by the extant distribution of Burmish languages to the north of the country, and the fact that taung (တောင်), the...
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    is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in western Myanmar, primarily in the Rakhine State. Closely related to Burmese, the language is spoken by the Rakhine...
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    speak Tibeto-Burman languages. The name derives from the most widely spoken of these languages, Burmese and the Tibetic languages, which also have extensive...
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  • လော်ဝေါ်), also known as Maru (မရူ) and Langsu (Chinese: 浪速), is a Burmish language spoken in Burma and by a few thousand speakers in China. Dai Qingxia...
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  • Intha and Danu are southern Burmish languages of Shan State, Burma, spoken respectively by the Intha and Danu people, the latter of whom are Bamar descendants...
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    Shan people (category Articles containing Shan-language text)
    as the "White Tai". Maingtha, a Shan group that speaks a Northern Burmish language The majority of Shan are Theravada Buddhists, and Tai folk religion...
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  • in China, the language emerged from Burmish languages and has few Sinitic qualities. It is a part of the Burmish Tibeto-Burmese language family. The Xiandao...
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    Jingpo people (category Articles containing Kachin-language text)
    all speakers of Zaiwa cluster of Northern Burmish languages, who also speak Jingpo as their secondary language. This definition is adopted by the Chinese...
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  • Sino-Tibetan proto-language and the common ancestor of all languages in it, including the Sinitic languages, the Tibetic languages, Yi, Bai, Burmese,...
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    Tibetan Khams Tibetan Baima Tshangla Zhangzhung (extinct) Lolo–Burmese–Naxi Burmish Achang Chashan Bola Zaiwa Langsu Lashi Loloish Yi Lisu Lahu Hani Jino Nakhi/Naxi...
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    to the Southern Burmish branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, of which Burmese is the most widely spoken of the non-Sinitic languages. Burmese was the...
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  • cyclone Bola language (Austronesian), an Oceanic language of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea Pela language (Bola language), a Burmish language of Western...
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  • Pela or Bola (Chinese: 波拉; autonym: pə³¹la⁵⁵, exonym: po³¹no⁵¹), is a Burmish language of Western Yunnan, China. In China, Pela speakers are classified as...
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  • (1990). "The Achang Language of Burma". In Sakiyama, Osamu 崎山 理 (ed.). Ajia no shogengo to ippan gengogaku アジアの諸言語と一般言語学 [Asian Languages and General Linguistics]...
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  • Myanmar Danu, Glodeni, a commune in Glodeni district, Moldova Danu language, a Burmish language in Myanmar Danú, an Irish folk music group The fictitious island...
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  • history of the sprachraum. Extinct language Language death Lists of endangered languages Lists of extinct languages Last surviving native speaker; it is...
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  • Chashan (Chinese: 茶山; autonym: ŋɔ³¹tʃʰaŋ⁵⁵) is a Burmish language spoken in Pianma Township (片马镇), Lushui County, Yunnan, China, in Xiapianma (下片马), Gangfang...
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  • to Jingpho, and is not a Sal language. On the other hand, Matisoff (2013) notes that Lolo-Burmese, particularly Burmish, appears to be more closely related...
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  • Burmish or Loloish branches. Hsiu (2018) considers Gong to be a separate branch of Tibeto-Burman, rather than part of Lolo-Burmese. The Gong language...
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    Achang people (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    County of Dehong Autonomous Prefecture. The Achang speak a Burmish (Burmese-related) language called Achang,[citation needed] but there is no indigenous...
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  • The Burmo-Qiangic or Eastern Tibeto-Burman languages are a proposed family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Southwest China and Myanmar. It consists...
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