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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 ...
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 ...
The Burmese Encyclopedia (Burmese: မြန်မာ့ စွယ်စုံကျမ်း) is an encyclopedia published by the Burma Translation Society under the direction of former Burmese Prime Minister U Nu. The project began in 1947, and the first volume was later published via Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd, Hertford, Great Britain. Each ...
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.
Burmese English (also called Myanmar English) is the register of the English language used in Myanmar (Burma), spoken as second language by an estimated 2.4 million people, about 5% of the population (1997). [1] The English language was initially introduced to the country during the British colonial period, spanning from 1824 until independence ...
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.
The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese. It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script , either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India .
In 2007, Burmese was spoken by 33 million people as a first language. [5] Burmese is spoken as a second language by another 10 million people, particularly ethnic minorities in Burma and those in neighbouring countries. [6] Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the Southern Burmish branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages.