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Unlike the Myanmar script, the Kayah Li script is an alphabet proper as the consonant letters do not have any subsequent vowel.Four of the vowels are written with separate letter, the others are written using a combination of the letter for a and a diacritic marker.
During the 20th century, the only data available were a short word list in De Roepstorff (1875), [3] scattered notes Man (1886) [4] and comparative list in Man (1889). [5]It was a century before more data became available, with 70 words being published in 1995 [6] and much new data being published in 2003, the most extensive so far. [7]
Nasal sounds /m, n, ŋ, ŋʷ/ are heard as prenasalized voiced-stops [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ, ᵑɡʷ] when preceding oral vowel sounds and heard as nasal sounds [m, n, ŋ, ŋʷ] when preceding nasal vowels, or in nasal positions.
Western Neo-Aramaic is the sole surviving remnant of the once extensive Western Aramaic-speaking area, which also included the Palestine region and Lebanon in the 7th century. [19] It is now spoken exclusively by the inhabitants of Maaloula and Jubb'adin, about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Damascus .
Mao, also known as Sopvoma, is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Angami–Pochuri linguistic sub-branch. [2] It is spoken primarily in Senapati district, northwestern Manipur and in Nagaland, India. It is similar to Angami. [3] The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. [4]
Zo (also spelled Zou and also known as Zokam) is a Northern Kuki-Chin-Mizo language [2] originating in western Burma and spoken also in Mizoram and Manipur in northeastern India. The name Zou is sometimes used as a cover term for the languages of all Mizo people (Zo people) i.e. Kukish and Chin peoples , especially the Zomi people .
Tangut script at Omniglot; Tangut script, by Andrew West (in Japanese) Sample Tangut characters at Mojikyo (in Japanese) 大西 磨希子・北本 朝展，『文字が語りかける民族意識：カラホトと西夏文字』，ディジタル・シルクロード; 史金波. 《西夏文字是有规律的文字吗？》 (in Chinese ...
Luba-Kasai, also known as Cilubà or Tshilubà, [4] Luba-Lulua, [5] [6] is a Bantu language of Central Africa and a national language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, alongside Lingala, Swahili, and Kikongo ya leta.