Topics Construction of Miandianguan Zazi database

In the IRC project titled “Construction of Miandianguan Zazi database,” we released a resource called “Miandianguan Zazi database.” This is an online searchable database of the Miantian language A/B data in the following two research publications that deal with “Miandianguan Zazi,” Miantian (Burmese) – Chinese bilingual lexicons compiled in Ming and Qing Dynasties of China.

– Nishida, Tatsuo (1972) A Study of the Burmese-Chinese Vocabulary Mien-Tien-Kuan I-Yu: An Introduction to Burmese Linguistics, Chapter 3
– Ono, Toru (1967) “Decipherment of the Sino-Burmese vocabulary in the Ching dynasty”

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(Written by Sawada HIDEO and Mayumi ADACHI)

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