Dictionary of Wa :with translations into English, Burmese and Chinese = Phuk lai toe : dee bleeh lox Vax lox Hawx - lox Man - lox Enggalang = Pug lai doui : ndee nbleeih loux Vax loux Hox - loux Man - loux Eing Ga Lang / by Justin Watkins.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Watkins, Justin, author.

Contributor:

• Watkins, Justin.

Series:

• Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia 21.
• Handbook of Oriental studies. Section three, Southeast Asia ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Wa language--Dictionaries--Polyglot.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1211 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 fact o 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.

Contents:

• Preliminary Material Volume 1
• Introduction
• Using the Dictionary
• Wa > Burmese/Chinese/English Dictionary A–M
• Preliminary Material Volume 2
• Wa > Burmese/Chinese/English Dictionary N–Z
• 1. Wa Personal Pronouns
• 2. Punctuation Symbols
• 3. Phonetic Terms in Wa
• 4. Wa Personal Names
• 5. Numbers in Wa
• 6. Wa Weights and Measures
• 7. Wa Language Place Names
• References
• PRC Wa to Official Wa Spelling Conversion Table.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-04-26058-7

OCLC:

866448575

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004260580 DOI