Lolo-Burmese languages

The lolo-Burman languages (also Burmese-Lolo or Yipho-Burmese) form the speaker-most subset of Tibeto-Burman languages , a primary branch of the Sino Tibetan . The 40 languages are spoken by 42 million people, mainly in Burma , South China , Laos and Vietnam . Lolo-Burmese is a genetic unit recognized by all professionals . It consists of the branches Lolo languages and Burmese languages . The most important individual languages are Burmese (32 million speakers), Yi (over 4 million) and Arakanese (2 million).

Classification and subunits

Sinotibian
- Tibeto Burmese
  - Lolo-Burmese
    - Lolo languages (7 million speakers)
    - Burmese languages (35 million speakers)
    - Moonshish languages

literature

Lolo-Burmese

Julian Wheatley: Burmese. In: Thurgood - Lapolla 2003.
James A. Matisoff: Lahu. In: Thurgood - Lapolla 2003.
David Bradley: Lisu. In: Thurgood - Lapolla 2003.
Inga-Lill Hansson: Akha. In: Thurgood - Lapolla 2003.
Rudolf Yanson: A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions. In: Beckwith 2002.

Tibeto Burmese

Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. Brill, Leiden - Boston - Cologne 2002.
Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus. Cambridge University Press 1972.
Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages. In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages. Oxford University Press 1990.
Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages. Mouton, Berlin - New York - Amsterdam 1982.
James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. University of California Press 2003.
Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 2004.
Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (Eds.): The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
George Van Driem: Languages of the Himalayas. Brill, Leiden 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Andrew Hsiu: Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Academia Sinica, Taipei 2014.

[1] Andrew Hsiu: Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Academia Sinica, Taipei 2014.