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A Burmese–English Dictionary publications Publication date Part Title Chief compiler(s) 1941: Part 1: A Burmese–English Dictionary: J. A. Stewart C. W. Dunn 1950: Part 2: A Burmese–English Dictionary: C. W. Dunn Hla Pe (co-ed.) 1956: Part 3: A Burmese–English Dictionary: C. W Dunn H. F. Searle Hla Pe 1962: Part 4: A Burmese–English ...
There are various Burmese dialects or related languages, the largest being Arakanese (or Rakhine), which retains the /r/ sound of older forms of Burmese, as well as various differences in vowel pronunciations. Some anglicisation of Burmese words were made with Rakhine pronunciations such as Irrawaddy for the Ayeyarwady River.
MLC's predecessor, the Literary and Translation Commission (ဘာသာပြန်နှင့် စာပေပြုစုရေး ကော်မရှင်), was set up by the Union Revolutionary Council in August 1963, tasked with publishing an official standard Burmese dictionary, Burmese speller, manual on Burmese composition, compilation of Burmese lexicon, terminology, and ...
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Burmese names (Burmese: မြန်မာ အမည်) lack the serial structure of most Western names. Like other Mainland Southeast Asian people (excepted Vietnamese ), the people of Myanmar have no customary matronymic or patronymic naming system and no tradition of surnames .
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]
Burmese is an agglutinative language. It has a subject-object-verb word order and is head-final . Particles are heavily utilized to convey syntactic functions, with wide divergence between literary and colloquial forms.
At the same time he was an assistant editor of the Burmese–English Dictionary. He became an associate editor of the dictionary in 1948. He devoted forty years to writing the dictionary. Professor Hla Pe taught Burmese language and culture at SOAS from 1948 and was Professor of Burmese at SOAS from 1966 until his retirement in 1980.