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Burmic

Burmic proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Burmic

  1. 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.
    • 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...1991, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Marcopædia, page 723
    • The Muji cluster is a newly defined series of Burmic languages affiliated with Phula and spoken in the Sino-Victnam borderlands.2007, Philip N. Jenner, Mon-Khmer Studies - Volume 37, page 179

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Questions about Burmic

What does Burmic mean?
Burmic means 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.
What part of speech is Burmic?
Burmic is a proper noun.

Words near Burmic in the dictionary

  1. Burmese star tortoises
  2. Burmeseness
  3. Burmeso
  4. Burmester
  5. Burmesters
  6. Burmic
  7. Burmilla
  8. Burmillas
  9. Burmish
  10. Burmo-
  11. burn

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