Talaingn.adj.

1798 F. Buchanan in Asiatick Researches 5 235 This people are named Talain by the Burmas and Chinese of Yunan.

1800 M. Symes Acct. Embassy to Ava v. 183 He has abrogated some severe penal laws imposed by his predecessors upon the Taliens, or native Peguers.

1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 438/1 Here and there, on the immediate banks of the river, are a few villages of Talain fishermen.

1844 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 13 i. 43 The city of Puggan was taken, the Talaings were overawed.

1854 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 4 282 In its vocables, the Talaing is the most isolated language in Farther India.

1881 C. J. F. S. Forbes Compar. Gram. Lang. Further India iv. 51 The British province of Pegu, representing the old Mon or Talaing kingdom, has become practically as Burman..as Ava itself.

1904 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India II. 1 The Mōn or Talaing spoken in Pegu.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vii. 408 When the ancestors of the modern Burmans came to the Irrawaddy basin, they found the people whom they call Talaings well established in southern Burma.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 759/1 From the Telingas, whose culture they [sc. the Mon] took and whose foreign blood they absorbed into their own stock, came the name Talaing.

1973 J. M. Maring & E. G. Maring Hist. & Cultural Dict. Burma 147 Mon, A lowland Mon-Khmer ethnolinguistic group of Mongoloid racial stock... Synonyms: Mon̄, Mun, Peguan, Talaing.