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Shwe War Tun
Shwe may refer to: * Shwe language, a variety of the Palaung language * Shwe, a subgroup of the Palaung people * Shwe (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter * Than Shwe (b. 1933), Burmese politician {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shwe Language
Palaung (), also known as De'ang (; ), is a Austroasiatic dialect cluster spoken by over half a million people in Burma (Shan State) and neighboring countries. The Palaung people are divided into Palé, Rumai, and Shwe, and each of whom have their own language. The Riang languages are reported to be unintelligible or only understood with great difficulty by native speakers of the other Palaung languages. A total number of speakers is uncertain; there were 150,000 Shwe speakers in 1982, 272,000 Ruching (Palé) speakers in 2000, and 139,000 Rumai speakers at an unrecorded date. Palaung was classified as a "severely endangered" language in UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.'' Dialects Yan and Zhou (2012) Chinese linguists classify "De'ang 德昂" varieties (spoken mostly in Santaishan Ethnic De'ang Township 三台山德昂族乡, Mangshi and Junnong Township 军弄乡, Zhenkang County) as follows (''De'angyu Jianzhi''). Names in IPA are from Yan & Zhou (2012:154 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
