Ethnologue: Languages of Myanmar

Ethnologue: Languages of the world
M. Paul Lewis
ISBN-13
978-1-55671-216-6
ISBN-10
1-55671-216-2
Year of publication
2009
Pages
1248
Price: $100.00


SIL ကေန ထုတ္တဲ့ Ethnologue: Languages of the world ဆိုတဲ့ စာအုပ္ ဆယ့္ေျခာက္ျကိမ္ေျမာက္ ထြက္လာတာ ေတြ့ရပါတယ္။ နိုင္ငံတစ္နိုင္ငံခ်င္းစီရဲ့ ဘာသာစကားမ်ိုးစံုကို စနစ္တက် စုစည္းေပးထားတဲ့၊ နိုင္ငံတကာ ပညာရွင္ေတြ အားလံုး လက္ကိုင္ထားရတဲ့ စာအုပ္တစ္အုပ္လည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ တိုင္းရင္းသား ဘာသာစကားေတြ အေျကာင္းကိုလည္း ေျခေျချမစ္ျမစ္ သိရတာမို့ အလြန္ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ့ စာအုပ္တစ္အုပ္ ျဖစ္တယ္လို့ လက္တို့ခ်င္ပါတယ္။ (က်ြန္ေတာှ့ဆီမွာေတာ့ 15th Version ပဲရွိတယ္။ ဒါေတာင္ စကဿငာပူက သူငယ္ခ်င္းတစ္ေယာက္ ေက်းဇူးေျကာင့္ ရထားတာမို့ သူ့ကိုလည္း အထူးပဲ ေက်းဇူးတင္ရပါတယ္)


Features

• 6,909 language descriptions organized by continent and country
• 41,186 primary names, alternate names, and dialect names
• 208 color maps showing location and distribution of languages
• Unique three-letter identifier for each language from the International Standard ISO 639-3
• Statistical summaries with numerical tabulations of living languages and number of speakers by continent, by language size, by language family, and by country
• Quality 7"x10" hardbound single volume

Languages of Myanmar


Union of Myanmar, Pyeidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw. Formerly Burma. 47,967,000. Tibeto-Burman speakers: 78% of the population, Daic languages 10%, Austro-Asiatic languages 7%, Hmong-Mien languages 6,000 (1991 J. Matisoff). National or official language: Burmese. Literacy rate: 66%–78%; 79% over 15 years old (1991). Immigrant languages: Bisu, Eastern Tamang, Iu Mien, Malay (21,000), Sylheti. Also includes Chinese (1,015,000), Malay (21,000), and languages of Bangladesh and India (500,000). Information mainly from R. Burling 2003; D. Bradley 1997; B. Comrie 1987; A. Hale 1982; R. Jones 1988; F. Lebar, G. Hickey, J. Musgrave 1964; J. Matisoff, S. Baron and J. Lowe 1996. Blind population: 214,440. Deaf population: 2,684,514. Deaf institutions: 2. The number of individual languages listed for Myanmar is 113. Of those, 111 are living languages and 2 have no known speakers.

1. Achang
2. Akeu
3. Akha
4. Anal
5. Anu
6. Bishnupriya
7. Blang
8. Burmese
9. Chak
10. Chaungtha
11. Chin, Asho
12. Chin, Bawm
13. Chin, Bualkhaw
14. Chin, Chinbon
15. Chin, Daai
16. Chin, Falam
17. Chin, Haka
18. Chin, Khumi
19. Chin, Khumi Awa
20. Chin, Mara
21. Chin, Mro
22. Chin, Mün
23. Chin, Ngawn
24. Chin, Paite
25. Chin, Senthang
26. Chin, Siyin
27. Chin, Tawr
28. Chin, Tedim
29. Chin, Thado
30. Chin, Zotung
31. Danau
32. Gangte
33. Hmong Njua
34. Hpon
35. Hrangkhol
36. Intha
37. Jingpho
38. Kadu
39. Karen, Brek
40. Karen, Bwe
41. Karen, Geba
42. Karen, Geko
43. Karen, Lahta
44. Karen, Manumanaw
45. Karen, Paku
46. Karen, Pa’o
47. Karen, Pwo Eastern
48. Karen, Pwo Western
49. Karen, S’gaw
50. Karen, Yinbaw
51. Karen, Yintale
52. Karen, Zayein
53. Kayah, Eastern
54. Kayah, Western
55. Kayan
56. Khamti
57. Khmu
58. Khün
59. Kiorr
60. Lahu
61. Lahu Shi
62. Lama
63. Lamkang
64. Laopang
65. Lashi
66. Lhao Vo
67. Lisu
68. Lopi
69. Lü
70. Lui
71. Meitei
72. Mizo
73. Moken
74. Mon
75. Mru
76. Naga, Leinong
77. Naga, Long Phuri
78. Naga, Makyan
79. Naga, Para
80. Naga, Tase
81. Nga La
82. Norra
83. Nung
84. Palaung, Ruching
85. Palaung, Rumai
86. Palaung, Shwe
87. Pali
88. Palu
89. Pankhu
90. Purum
91. Pyen
92. Rakhine
93. Ralte
94. Rawang
95. Riang
96. Rohingya
97. Samtao
98. Sansu
99. Shan
100. Tai Loi
101. Tai Nüa
102. Taman
103. Taungyo
104. Tavoyan
105. Wa, Parauk
106. Welaung
107. Wewaw
108. Yangbye
109. Yinchia
110. Yos
111. Zaiwa
112. Zo
113. Zyphe

စာအုပ္ကို မဝယ္ေသးဘဲ ျမည္းစမ္းျကည့္ဦးမယ္ ဆိုရင္လည္း Online Version အေနနဲ့ ရွိပါတယ္။ [Link: ethnologue] စာအုပ္လို အလြယ္တကူ လွန္ေလွာလို့ မရတာကလြဲလို့ အျပည့္အစံု နီးပါးပါပဲ။ စာအုပ္မွာပါတဲ့ ေျမပံုေတြကိုေတာ့ ဝဘ္ေပါှမွာ ေတြ့ရမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ တခ်ို့ ဘာသာစကား နာမည္ေတြ ဒီစာအုပ္ထဲမွာ ေတြ့ေတာ့မွ ကိုယ့္နိုင္ငံမွာ ရွိပါလားဆိုတာ သိေတာ့တယ္။ တန္ဖိုး ေဒါှလာ ၁၀၀ ဆိုတာက အနည္းငယ္ မ်ားတယ္လို့ ထင္ရေပမယ့္ ဘာသာစကားကို ဝါသနာပါတဲ့ သူေတြ အေနနဲ့ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ နွေျမာမယ္ မထင္ပါဘူး။