The Dictionary of Lahu
The Dictionary of Lahu
Publisher: Univ. of California Pr. | 1989 | ISBN-10: 0520097114 | ISBN-13: 978 0520097117 | English/Tibetan | PDF | 1480 pages | 217.9 Mb
Publisher: Univ. of California Pr. | 1989 | ISBN-10: 0520097114 | ISBN-13: 978 0520097117 | English/Tibetan | PDF | 1480 pages | 217.9 Mb
The Lahu are a hill-dwelling Tibeto-Burman people whose language reflects the influence of Thai and Chinese, yet retains a unique beauty and expressive power of its own. The Dictionary of Lahu is one of the most exhaustive and sophisticated dictionaries yet produced for a Southeast Asian language. Together with the author's The Grammar of Lahu (UCPL vol. 75, 1973/1982), it places Lahu among the best documented minority languages of the world.
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.