Blimaw is a
Karenic language
The Karen () or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some seven million Karen people. They are of unclear affiliation within the Sino-Tibetan languages. The Karen languages are written using the Karen script. The three main branches ...
of
Myanmar
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 C. Wells, Joh ...
.
[Shintani, Tadahiko. 2017. ''The Blimaw language''. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 112. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).]
A word list is available in
Shintani (2017).
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Classification
Blimaw is classified within the Western Bwe subgroup by Luangthongkum (2019), and is hence closely related to Bwe and Geba.[Luangthongkum, Theraphan. 2019. A View on Proto-Karen Phonology and Lexicon. ''Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society'' (''JSEALS'') Vol. 12.1 (2019): i-lii. ISSN: 1836-6821, DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52441] Like Geba, Blimaw preserves the implosives or preglottalised obstruents and , as well as voiceless sonorants such as , , and so forth (''see Proto-Karenic language
Proto-Karenic or Proto-Karen is the proto-language, reconstructed ancestor of the Karenic languages.
Reconstruction
The foundation of the reconstruction of Proto-Karen was laid by André-Georges Haudricourt in 1946, with revisions in 1953 and 19 ...
'').
References
Karenic languages
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