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University of California Press
UC Publications in Linguistics
University of California, Office of the President

English-Lahu Lexicon
James A. Matisoff, University of California, Berkeley

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ABSTRACT:

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.).

ELL 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. Eight useful Appendices (e.g. Plant and Animal Names) round out the volume's 450 pages.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
James A. Matisoff, "English-Lahu Lexicon" (April 1, 2006). UC Publications in Linguistics. Paper vol_139.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/ucpl/vol_139

 
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