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Pyin Khone Gyi
Pyen (Hpyin, Phen; ') is a Loloish language of Burma. It is spoken by about 700 people in two villages near Mong Yang Township, Mong Yang, Shan State, Burma, just to the north of Kengtung.Person, Kirk R. 2007''A preliminary phonological sketch of Pyen, with comparison to Bisu'' Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Pyen borrows more from Lahu and Shan, while Bisu language, Bisu borrows more from Northern Thai language, Northern Thai and Thai language, Standard Thai. Pyen and Bisu are both mutually intelligible, since the two form a dialect chain along with Laomian language, Laomian and Laopin language, Laopin of China, and some Phunoi language, Phunoi varieties of Laos (Person 2007). References *http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/person2007preliminary.pdf *Shintani Tadahiko. 2009. The Pyen (or Phen) language: its classified lexicon '. Fuchu (Tokyo-to): Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. {{Ethnic groups in Myanmar Southern Loloish languages Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explains, the English spellings of both Myanmar and Burma assume a non-rhotic variety of English, in which the letter r before a consonant or finally serves merely to indicate a long vowel: mjænmɑː, ˈbɜːmə So the pronunciation of the last syllable of Myanmar as ɑːror of Burma as ɜːrməby some speakers in the UK and most speakers in North America is in fact a spelling pronunciation based on a misunderstanding of non-rhotic spelling conventions. The final ''r'' in ''Myanmar'' was not intended for pronunciation and is there to ensure that the final a is pronounced with the broad ''ah'' () in "father". If the Burmese name my, မြန်မာ, label=none were spelled "Myanma" in English, this would be pronounced at the end by all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |