| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes (xvi, 1187 pages .) |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section three, Southeast Asia ; volume 21/1-2 |
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Handbuch der Orientalistik. Dritte Abteilung, Südostasien ; 21/1-2. Bd.
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| Contents |
Volume 1: A-M -- Volume 2: N-Z |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Title also given in Burmese and Chinese scripts |
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Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1149-1158) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2014) |
| Subject |
Wa language -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
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Wa language
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Wa-Sprache
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004260580 |
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9004260587 |
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