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Hoke Sein (Burmese: ဟုတ်စိန်; 1890–1984; [1] also spelt Hok Sein) was a Burmese linguist and lexicographer, best known for compiling the influential Universal Burmese-English-Pali Dictionary still used by Pali and Burmese language scholars today. [2] [3]
An early grammar and dictionary was published by Methodist missionary Benjamin Clough in 1824, and an initial study published by Eugène Burnouf and Christian Lassen in 1826 (Essai sur le Pali, ou Langue sacrée de la presqu'île au-delà du Gange). [6] The first modern Pali-English dictionary was published by Robert Childers in 1872 and 1875. [22]
Parabaik Myanmar Unicode Project GPLed and OFLed; Ayar Myanmar online dictionary and download; Download KaNaungConverter_Window_Build200508.zip from the Kanaung project page and Unzip Ka Naung Converter Engine; Padauk – Free Burmese Unicode font distributed by SIL International
Nameboard of a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai written with Lanna: Wat Mokhamtuang (and street number 119 in Thai) Northern Thai inscription in Tai Tham script in Chiang Mai. The Tai Tham script shows a strong similarity to the Mon script used by the Mon kingdom of Haripunjaya around the 13th century CE, in the present-day Lamphun Province of Northern Thailand.
Side view of a Manussiha in a dictionary. Manussīha(မနုဿီဟ) is a combination of two Pali words; Manussa(မနုဿ) meaning "human" and Sīha(သီဟ) meaning "lion". Thus, it can be literally translated as "Man-lion". The Myanmar-English Dictionary, published by the Myanmar Language Commission, defined မနုဿီဟ as:
Myanmar is a Unicode block containing characters for the Burmese, Mon, Shan, Palaung, and the Karen languages of Myanmar, as well as the Aiton and Phake languages of Northeast India. It is also used to write Pali and Sanskrit in Myanmar.
nʌŋ-giːj-bâːj IRR - IPFV -happen lôj only hɲjɛ̂n DEM hnaːŋ how.many ʔɜ̂ː 1PL. INCL gʌ̀ː old jʌ̂ːm die nʌŋ-giːj-bâːj lôj hɲjɛ̂n hnaːŋ ʔɜ̂ː gʌ̀ː jʌ̂ːm IRR-IPFV-happen only DEM how.many 1PL.INCL old die "It only will be like this, until we are old, and we die." Writing system During British rule in Burma, Palaung speakers used the Shan script to write ...
The final nasal /ɰ̃/ is the value of the four native final nasals: မ် /m/, န် /n/, ဉ် /ɲ/, င် /ŋ/, as well as the retroflex ဏ /ɳ/ (used in Pali loans) and nasalisation mark anusvara demonstrated here above ka (က → ကံ) which most often stands in for a homorganic nasal word medially as in တံခါး tankhá ...