Talaing

English Etymology Borrowed from en my တလိုင်း.Mon, Burmese Talaing, in Encyclopædia Britannican, adj "Origin The name in Burmese." Proper noun Mon. en Mon Peguan Noun s * Mon. en Robert Halliday 2 1917 The Talaings https://www.forgottenbooks.com/de/download/TheTalaings_10317259.pdf 752606141 The Talaings in Burma, who retain the use of their own language and keep up their separate nationality , are found chiefly in the Thaton and Amherst districts. In Siam they are found chiefly on the Menam and Meklawng rivers, living in separate villages and maintaining their own customs. en 1977 Gordon T. Bowles The People of Asia https://archive.org/details/peopleofasia00bowl/ Peoples of the World Series New York w:Charles Scribner's Sons 0-684-15625-3 77-26647 911238273 4556474M 191 https://archive.org/details/peopleofasia00bowl/page/191/ Today the Mon-speaking Talaing still occupy parts of southern Burma. en 2005 Francis Dorai Burma https://archive.org/details/burmamyanmar0000unse/ w:Insight Guides Updated 2006 978-981-4120-46-3 1052759691 9198369M 153 https://archive.org/details/burmamyanmar0000unse/page/153/ A mythological duckTo fully appreciate a trip to Bago 8, the visitor should first understand the history of the Talaing (Mon) people. Like the Pyu — predecessors of the Bamar — they originally came from the north. The Talaing, who arrived before the Pyu, ventured down the Thanlwin River rather than the Ayeyarwady. Theirs was the “Golden Land of Suvannabhumi”, which stretched from what is today Malaysia to. the Bay of Bengal. The Talaing built their capital, Thaton, on the east side of the Sittoung (Sittang) River. en Michael A. Aung-Thwin 261 2017 The Mists of Rāmañña / The Legend That Was Lower Burma One of the most important issues enmeshed in the historiography of early Burma is the notion of the “downtrodden Talaing.” This is the belief that King Alaungpaya in the eighteenth century had conducted a war of extermination of the Mon people, enslaved them, and had deliberately created a derogatory Burmese term (talaing) to be used thenceforth for the Mon people. (This book denies the claims of early Mon prominence in Burma) Adjective Mon. en Mon Peguan en Richard Carnac Temple (The quotation is the title itself.) Notes On Antiquities in Ramannadesa (The Talaing Country of Burma.) 2017 1894 en 1996 Carol Rose Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People https://archive.org/details/spiritsfairiesgn00rose/ 0-87436-811-1 96-8460 432834346 971656M 98 https://archive.org/details/spiritsfairiesgn00rose/page/98/ EINGSAUNGIn the folk beliefs of the Burman and Talaing people of Burma, these nats are benevolent house guardians that dwell in the south corner of the home in a post decorated with leaves. They are propitiated with offerings of coconuts. References Further reading en Ethnonyms