LAST DAY HURRAY. WE DID IT.
But WAIT!
There’s more.
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| Buddah carved from solid teak. |
In the Burmese alphabet, the Za is written two different ways, according to the charts I saw. The two characters for Za are on the second line the third and fourth characters from the left.
A tonal language, written Burmese is over 1,000 years old. The tones aren’t just simple pitch issues. Meaning changes with the duration a sound is held and whether the sound is voiced (e.g. Z) or voiceless (e.g. S). Good luck with those tones.
English is a Subject-Verb-Object language, but Burmese is Subject-Object-Verb, and to get really Linguistic on you, the Verbs can be “quasiagglutinative.” So there you have it. Aren’t you glad you read to the end?
And speaking of that. . .this is THE END. Adios AtoZChallege 2015! Now I’m off to collapse on the couch with my Burmese language tapes.
Question: What do you know about Yangon?
T 1. The Mons were the earliest inhabitants of the area now called Yangon. (The village Dagon was founded in the 6th century by the Mons.)
F 2. In the eighteen hundreds, the Burmese fought the British and won the battle of Yangon. (The Burmese lost badly. Only 7,000 of the 30,000 soldiers survived.)
Just in case you did some speed reading through my carefully prepared Z post, here it is again.
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