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English-Lahu lexicon

by James A. Matisoff

(University of California publications in linguistics, v. 139)

University of California Press, c2006

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English and Lahu

With the indispensable assistance of Michael Brodhead ... [et al.]

Includes bibliographical references

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Lahu is an important minority language of Southeast Asia, belonging to the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by over 500,000 people in China, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. This "English-Lahu Lexicon" (ELL) is a computer-aided but manually edited "reversal" of the author's monumental Lahu-English dictionary ("The Dictionary of Lahu", UCPL #111, 1988, xxv + 1436 pp.). "English-Lahu Lexicon" contains nearly 5400 head-entries and well over 10,000 carefully arranged subentries. Every Lahu expression is provided with a form-class designation to indicate its grammatical function. It contains eight useful appendices (e.g. Plant and Animal Names) round out the volume's 450 pages.

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