单词 | rawang |
释义 | Rawangn. A Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Kachin State in northern Burma (Myanmar); a member of the people who speak this language. Occasionally attributive. Cf. Nung n.1 ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > Tibeto-Burman > Burmic > Kachin or Rawang Nung1878 Kachin1892 Rawang1934 1934 J. T. O. Barnard Handbk. of Răwang Dial. of Nung Lang. p. v This is the first book on the Nung language, which has many dialects, of which, however, Răwang may be taken as the one most commonly spoken. 1954 E. R. Leach Polit. Syst. Highland Burma iii. 45 Nung—several distinct dialects. Rawang and Daru dialects said to be mutually unintelligible. 1966 Artibus Asiae Supplementum 23 198 The traditional history of the Rawangs also points to entry into Burma from the great river valleys to the east. 2001 A. Rabinowitz Beyond Last Village x. 126 The way of life of the Tibetans here was clearly different from that of the Rawang we had visited earlier. 2007 D. Bradley in C. Moseley Encycl. World’s Endangered Langs. 358 In Burma there are five distinct varieties of Rawang. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1934 |
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