Palaung or Ta'ang ( Burmese : ပလောင်ဘာသာ ), also known as De'ang ( Chinese : 德昂語 ; Burmese : တအာင်းဘာသာ ), is a Austroasiatic dialect cluster spoken by over half a million people in Burma ( Shan State ) and neighboring countries. The Palaung people are divided into Palé (Ruching), Rumai, and Shwe, and each of whom have their own language. The Riang languages are reported to be unintelligible or only understood with great difficulty by native speakers of the other Palaung languages.
7-550: Shwe may refer to: Shwe language , a variety of the Palaung language Shwe, a subgroup of the Palaung people Shwe (Cyrillic) , a Cyrillic letter Than Shwe (b. 1933), Burmese politician Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shwe . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
14-415: A central vowel [ə], and is heard as [ɤ] elsewhere. /a/ can be heard as fronted [æ] before /k, ŋ/, and [ɛ] before /n, t/. According to Shorto (1960), /ɤ/ does not occur alone in primary stressed syllable, but only in an unstressed syllable or as the second member of a diphthong. There are also a large number of diphthongs, including /eo/, /eɤ/, /aɤ/, /ɔɤ/, /oɤ/, /uɤ/, and /iɤ/. Although Milne (1921) includes
21-585: The dialect (Yan & Zhou 2012:154–155). Another De'ang autonym is ho (rau) khaoʔ , where rau means 'village'. The local Dai people refer to the De'ang as po˧loŋ˧ . Liu (2006) documents three Palaungic lects, namely: Weera Ostapirat (2009:74) classifies the Palaung languages as follows. Defining sound changes are given in parentheses. Shintani (2008) recognizes two dialects of Palaung, namely Southern Palaung and Northern Palaung. Southern Palaung unvoiced stops correspond to Northern Palaung voiced stops,
28-415: The latter which Shintani (2008) believes to be retentions from Proto-Palaungic. Southern Palaung dialects studied by Shintani (2008) are those of: Deepadung et al. (2015) classify the Palaung dialects as follows. Chen, et al. (1986) lists the following consonants for Palaung: A final /r/ can be heard as a voiceless sound [ɹ̥], and following a /u/ it is heard as [ɫ̥]. /ɤ/ can be heard in rapid speech as
35-541: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shwe&oldid=933127712 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shwe language A total number of speakers is uncertain; there were 150,000 Shwe speakers in 1982, 272,000 Ruching (Palé) speakers in 2000, and 139,000 Rumai speakers at an unrecorded date. Palaung
42-494: The vowels /ü, ö, ɪ/ in her transcriptions, Shorto (1960) did not find these as vowel phonemes in his work. (Note that the words cited below in the Syntax section come from Milne (1921), so their phonetic representations may need revision.) The examples below are form Milne (1921). The order of elements in the noun phrase is N – (possessor) – (demonstrative). Consider the following examples: Shwe Palaung has prepositions, as in
49-869: Was classified as a "severely endangered" language in UNESCO 's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger . The Rulai dialect spoken near Lashio has regular phonological changes and some lexical differences from Ruching . Chinese linguists classify "De'ang 德昂" varieties (spoken mostly in Santaishan Ethnic De'ang Township 三台山德昂族乡, Mangshi and Junnong Township 军弄乡, Zhenkang County ) as follows ( De'angyu Jianzhi ). Names in IPA are from Yan & Zhou (2012:154–155) The De'ang 德昂 variously refer themselves as naʔaŋ , [ daʔaŋ ], [ toʔaŋ ], and [ laʔaŋ ], depending on
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