Zauzou: a new Lolo-Burmese language by Thurgood, Graham

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Myanmar phrase book : a quick and effective way to learn Myanmar conversation / by Ma Tin Cho Mar @ Noorjahan Bi Bi

Subjects: “…Burmese language…”

Basic Myanmar: Myanmar level 1 by Than, Daw Thi Da

“…Years of experience teaching the Burmese language at the Universiti Putra Malaysia has led Daw Thi Da Than to produce this course book. …”

Analysis of Rime-groups in Northern-Burmish by Dempsey, Jakob

“…Within the large Yipo-Burmic (= Lolo-Burmese) branch of Tibeto-Burman, the Burmese language itself has received the most study. Old Burmese inscriptions, most of which date from the twelfth century, are in volume and antiquity no way comparable to Tibetan, let alone Chinese records, but they still remain the third-most useful set of early documentation for Sino-Tibetan languages, and the reconstruction of Burmese has served as both a model and tool for tracking the early development of many languages in East Asia.…”
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Review of "A study of Rouruo 柔若语研究" by Handel, Zev

“…With the publication of A study of Rouruo, we now have the first substantial grammar of this Lolo-Burmese language of the Tibeto-Burman family.…”
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A gateway to the six languages: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add.1698 by Formigatti, CA

“…This late fourteenth-century palm-leaf manuscript from Nepal bears witness to close scholarly engagement with Sanskrit texts by speakers of the Tibeto-Burmese language Newari. It contains a Newari translation-cum-commentary of Amarasiṃha’s lexicographical masterpiece, the Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana, prepared by the scholar Maṇika. …”

Request strategies in Burmese by Rattanapitak, Ampika

“…This study investigates request strategies in the Burmese language. The main data come from a questionnaire and are supplemented by observations. …”
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The “ethnic corridor”: Vicissitudes of a pivotal concept in Chinese anthropological linguistics by Hongkai Sun, Tommaso Previato

“…Particular attention is paid to the geographical distribution of the ethnic groups of the Tibetan-Burmese language family and their interactional patterns in various historical periods. …”
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The markers ka, ha and zero-marking in oral colloquial Burmese by Lazareva, I

“…</p> <p>The first chapter equips the reader with some important features of the Burmese language and introduces the data and methodology used in my work.…”

A comprehensive assessment of ground motions from two 2016 intra-slab earthquakes in Myanmar by Martin, Stacey Servito, Wang, Yu, Wei, Shengji, Suresh, G., Chen, Weiwen, Gahalaut, Vineet, Aung, Lin Thu, Thant, Myo, Htay, Khaing Nyein, Aung, Hla Myo, Kyaw, Tay Zar, Min, Soe, Sithu, Kaung, Naing, Tun, Khaing, Saw Ngwe, Oo, Kyaw Moe, Maung, Phyo Maung

“…In Myanmar, this was driven by improved telecommunication that has allowed social media such as the Burmese language Facebook portal of the Myanmar Earthquake Committee (MEC) to reach into rural areas from where reports of shaking effects from earthquakes have been previously unavailable. …”
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Problems and progress in Lolo-Burmese: quo vadimus? by Matisoff, James A.

“…The Lolo-Burmese languages form one of the 7 or 8 primary divisions of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) family. …”
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Na-khi and Froto-Lolo-Burmese: a preliminary survey by Okrand, Marc

“…It has been classified (by Matisoff 1972) as a member of the Mosoid branch of the Loloid group of Lolo-Burmese languages within the Tibeto-Burman stock. The data upon which this preliminary survey is based are exclusively from Rock (1963) who makes a definite distinction between Na-khi and the related Moso.…”
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