Dictionary of Wa (2 Vols)

With Translations Into English, Burmese and Chinese
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25577-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 1212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2087 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia

The northern Mon-Khmer language Wa is a group of dialects spoken by about a million people on the China-Burma border. The Dictionary of Wa documents the lexicon of a digitised corpus comprising the majority of extant printed resources in the two closely related de facto standard Wa dialects.
Approximately 12,000 headwords and compounds are translated and explained in Burmese, Chinese and English, with some 7,000 example sentences, similarly translated. The dictionary is alphabetised in the Wa orthography officially adopted by the authorities in the Wa Special Region in Burma, a revised and improved version of the spelling first devised for translations of the Bible in the 1930s; headwords are given also in the spelling devised for Wa publications in China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watkins, Justin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Mehrsprachige Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Justin Watkins has taught Burmese and linguistics at SOAS, University of London since 1999. His research focuses on the languages spoken in Burma/Myanmar, most recently Wa, Khumi and Sumtu.