Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Myanmar–English Dictionary This page was last edited on 25 July 2017, at 17:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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.
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 English (also called Myanmar English) is the register of the English language used in Myanmar (Burma), spoken as first or second language by an estimated 2.4 million people, about 5% of the population (1997). [1]
Stacked consonants are largely confined to loan words from languages like Pali, Sanskrit, and occasionally English. For instance, the Burmese word for "self" (via Pali atta ) is spelt အတ္တ , not * အတ်တ , although both would be read the same.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate