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The northern Mon-Khmer language Wa is a group of dialects spoken by about a million people on the China-Burma border. The Dictionary of Wa documents the lexicon of a digitised corpus comprising the majority of extant printed resources in the two closely related de fact o standard Wa dialects. Approximately 12,000 headwords and compounds are translated and explained in Burmese, Chinese and English, with some 7,000 example sentences, similarly translated. The dictionary is alphabetised in the Wa orthography officially adopted by the authorities in the Wa Special Region in Burma, a revised and improved version of the spelling first devised for translations of the Bible in the 1930s; headwords are given also in the spelling devised for Wa publications in China.

Wa language --- Austroasiatic languages --- Polyglot.

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"The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. It considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. This book lies at the crossroads of the following themes: areal typology, since it is concerned with mainland Southeast Asia in particular; language contact and genetic affiliation, since the various grammatical sketches lay emphasis on characteristics shared by unrelated languages." Source : publisher

Lexicology. Semantics --- Phonetics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Comparative linguistics --- Southeast Asia --- Languages. --- E-books