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A government project was set up in 2010 to establish a national sign language with the aid of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf. [ 3 ] Two manual alphabets are in use in Yangon : the American manual alphabet , which may or may not be well known, and a Burmese-based alphabet taught in the 1970s and 1980s.
Burmese, spoken by two-thirds of the population, is the official language. [2] Languages spoken by ethnic minorities represent six language families: Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Tai–Kadai, Indo-European, Austronesian and Hmong–Mien, [3] as well as an incipient national standard for Burmese sign language. [4]
(Australian Sign Language) Ban Khor Sign Language: village (Plaa Pag is a dialect) Bhutanese Sign Language? Burmese sign language: ASL: may be two languages Cambodian Sign Language = mixed LSF, BSL, ASL, various dialects within: Chinese Sign Language: Chinese "中國手語" (ZGS) Enga Sign Language: village: PNG Esharani : isolate
The Constitution of Myanmar officially refers to it as the Myanmar language in English, [3] though most English speakers continue to refer to the language as Burmese, after Burma—a name with co-official status until 1989 (see Names of Myanmar). Burmese is the most widely-spoken language in the country, where it serves as the lingua franca. [4]
The most widely spoken Tibeto-Burman language is Burmese, the national language of Myanmar, with over 32 million speakers and a literary tradition dating from the early 12th century. It is one of the Lolo-Burmese languages , an intensively studied and well-defined group comprising approximately 100 languages spoken in Myanmar and the highlands ...
In Myanmar, it is spoken in Shan State, Kachin State, Sagaing Division and Mandalay Division. The two states are bordered by Yunnan. The Fraser script was invented in Myanmar by Sara Ba Thaw. In India, it is spoken in the Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh and possibly in the Tinsukia District of Assam.
Laymyo language (Burmese: လေးမြို့; also spelt Lemyo or Phung lawng) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in Myanmar's Southern Chin State across the Lemro River, where it is the main dialect.
Proto Lolo–Burmese. Bloomington: Indiana University. Clerk, F. V. (1911). A manual of the Lawngwaw or Măru language, containing: the grammatical principles of the language, glossaries of special terms, colloquial exercises, and Maru-English and English-Maru vocabularies. Rangoon: American Baptist mission press. Dai, Qing-xia (1981).