Blimaw language explained

Blimaw
States:Myanmar
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:(Tibeto-Burman)
Fam3:Karen languages
Fam4:Western Bwe

Blimaw is a Karenic language of Myanmar.[1]

A word list is available in Shintani (2017).

Classification

Blimaw is classified within the Western Bwe subgroup by Luangthongkum (2019) and is hence closely related to Bwe and Geba.[2] Like Geba, Blimaw preserves the implosives or preglottalised obstruents pronounced as /ɓ/ʔb/ and pronounced as /ɗ/ʔd/, as well as voiceless sonorants such as pronounced as /hn/n̥/, pronounced as /hl/l̥/, and so forth (see Proto-Karenic language).

Notes and References

  1. Book: Shintani, Tadahiko . The Blimaw language . 2017 . The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) . 978-4-86337-248-1 . First . Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) . Tokyo.
  2. Luangthongkum, Theraphan. 2019. A View on Proto-Karen Phonology and Lexicon. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) Vol. 12.1 (2019): i-lii. ISSN: 1836-6821, DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52441

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