The Myanmar Language Commission ( Burmese : မြန်မာစာအဖွဲ့ ; formerly Burmese Language Commission ; abbreviated MLC ) is the pre-eminent government body on matters pertaining to the Burmese language . It is responsible for several projects including the Myanmar–English Dictionary (1993) and MLC Transcription System for Romanization of Burmese .
6-642: MLC's predecessor, the Literary and Translation Commission ( ဘာသာပြန်နှင့် စာပေပြုစုရေး ကော်မရှင် ), was set up by the Union Revolutionary Council in August 1963, tasked with publishing an official standard Burmese dictionary, Burmese speller, manual on Burmese composition, compilation of Burmese lexicon, terminology, and translation, compilation and publication of textbooks, reference books, and periodicals for educational use. The commission
12-703: The Pyithu Hluttaw (People's Assembly), the country's new unicameral legislature . The Revolutionary Council's philosophical framework was laid in the Burmese Way to Socialism , which aspired to convert Burma into a self-sustaining democratic socialist state , on 30 April 1962. On 4 July 1962, the RC established the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), the country's only legal political party which Donald M. Seekins claims
18-546: The Revolutionary Council of the Union of Burma ( Burmese : ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်လှန်ရေးကောင်စီ ) or simply the Revolutionary Council ( RC ; Burmese : တော်လှန်ရေးကောင်စီ ), was the supreme governing body of Burma (now Myanmar) from 2 March 1962, following the overthrow of U Nu 's civilian government , to 3 March 1974, with the promulgation of the 1974 Constitution of Burma and transfer of power to
24-562: The First Revolutionary Council, all of whom were military officers, are: The government formed by the Revolutionary Council of the Union of Burma was named Revolutionary Government of the Union of Burma ( ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်လှန်ရေးအစိုးရ ) or simply Revolutionary Government ( တော်လှန်ရေးအစိုးရ ). As wiping out the monarchist terms, a Ministry was called as a Department ( ဌာန ) and
30-474: Was modelled along the lines of a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary party . From 1962 to 1971, BSPP transitioned from a cadre party (consisting of elite RC affiliated members) into a mass party. In the First Congress, the party had 344,226 members. By 1981, BSPP had 1.5 million members. The Union Revolutionary Council was led by Ne Win , its chairman and 16 senior officers. The founding members of
36-563: Was re-established as the Burmese Language Commission (BLC) on 15 September 1971. This article about an organisation in Myanmar is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a linguistics organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Union Revolutionary Council The Union Revolutionary Council ( Burmese : နိုင်ငံတော်တော်လှန်ရေးကောင်စီ ), officially
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