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单词 Burmic
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Burmic

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Burmic

  1. (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.
    • 1991, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Marcopædia, page 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.
    • 2007, Philip N. Jenner, Mon-Khmer Studies - Volume 37, page 179:
      The Muji cluster is a newly defined series of Burmic languages affiliated with Phula and spoken in the Sino-Victnam borderlands.
    • 2008, Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2011, Jamin R. Pelkey, Dialectology as Dialectic: Interpreting Phula Variation, →ISBN, page 272:
      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.

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