Burmic

English Pronunciation en ɜː(ɹ)mɪk 2 Proper noun en linguistics A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages distantly related to Tibetan and spoken in East Asia over the borders of Burma, including dialects of the Burmese-Lolo (Burmish) subgroup (including Burmese) and the Kachin subgroup. en 1991 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Marcopædia 723 Some scholars believe the Tibetic and Burmic divisions to be premature and that for the present their subdivisions (such as Bodish, Himalayish, Kirantish, Burmish, Kachinish, Kukish) should be considered as the classificatory peaks around which the Sino-Tibetan languages group themselves as members or more or less distant relatives. en 2007 Mon-Khmer Studies - Volume 37 Philip N. Jenner 179 The Muji cluster is a newly defined series of Burmic languages affiliated with Phula and spoken in the Sino-Victnam borderlands. en 2008 Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages Christopher Moseley 1135796408 The Burmic languages comprise the Burmish languages, including Burmese, the Gong language and the Loloish, Yi Branch or Ngwi languages, which can be further subclassified into Northern, Central, Southern and Southeastern. en 2011 Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation Jamin R. Pelkey 272 311024585X As discussed in §2.8, as long as a group of languages can be shown to share broad genetic affiliation at an upper level, e.g., Ngwi, Burmic, etc., internal tone system innovations provide a potential lode of robust, paradigm-like criteria for identifying exclusive internal subgroupings. Anagrams en bcimru umbric