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Our Interests
(subjects in alphabetical order)
-- TIL (Tun Institute of Learning)
    http://www.tuninst.net
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ART
Than's Gallery: Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3

BURMESE, ENGLISH, PALI, SANSKRIT (BEPS)
Correspondence between four languages in three scripts:
Burmese-Myanmar, English-Latin, Pali-Myanmar, and Sanskrit-Devanagari.
   Section 1
English phonetics - Eng-phon-indx.htm 
English pronunciation guide - EPG-indx.htm
   Section 2
English pronouncing dictionary - DJPD16-indx.htm
   Section 3 : TIL Pali-English dictionary (in akshara-order) by UKT and staff of TIL
- PED-indx.htm
This contains some entries from:
¤ U Hoke Sein Pali Myanmar Dictionary (in Burmese) 
¤ U Pe Maung Tin, The Student's Pali English dictionary , 1920, (in English)
   Section 4 : TIL Sanskrit-English dictionary (in akshara-order) by UKT and staff of TIL
- SED-indx.htm
- intro-RBM.htm : Romabama is included in this section because SED was
   my very first entry into Sanskrit and then into Pali.
   Section 5 : Source Dictionaries
TOC given in phonemic (abugida) order.
Many entries from UHS-PMD (in Pal-Myan) with my English translations have been added.
¤ U Pe Maung Tin, The Student's Pali English dictionary , 1920, - PMT-indx.htm - continuing work.
¤ PTS Pali-English dictionary, 1921, PTS-indx.htm - vowels complete
¤ Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English dictionary, 1899. MW-indx.htm - complete
¤ A. A. Macdonell A Practical Sanskrit dictionary, 1893. MC-indx.htm - continuing
¤ Edgerton, Franklin, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary - under consideration
¤ Reverse Sanskrit Dictionary : Rückläufiges Sanskrit-Wörterbuch
to search for Sanskrit words ending with a certain word or ending
-- http://www.sanskritweb.net/sansdocs/reverse1.pdf 120221
A downloaded copy of this dictionary in TIL library C:\~~Lib-Skt\Sanskrit\ReverseSktDict\ reverse1.pdf

COMPUTER and INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
• Distance Education -- Daw Nini Tun, Daw Thetthet Theinthan
  Sample of teaching biology on Internet
• Designs -- Daw Nini Tun, Daw Thetthet Theinthan

COMPUTER ASSISTED TEACHING OF ENGLISH (this is now included as a section under Romabama, indx-GPE.htm - 080809)
CATE (Computer Assisted Teaching of English) is a unique teaching programme for Internet and email teaching. Designed by a bilingual person based on his knowledge of Linguistics and Phonetics, the programme gives notes on individual words and usage, and the culture and history of the English speaking people, from a Burmese-Myanmar perspective. The notes and explanations are in Romabama (an almost character-by-character transliteration of Myanmar script into extended Latin-alphabet). The programme takes advantage of the fact that the Myanmar script, a descendent of the Brahmi script of Emperor Asoka  (273-232 BC) of India, is based on sound phonemic principles.

ENGLISH 
• TIL English Grammar indx [partial update 120118]
A compilation by U Kyaw Tun (M.S., I.P.S.T., USA) and staff of TIL, 

Essays written for TIL
• Lexical ambiguity in the English language
-- Nguyen Thi Van Lam, Vinh University, Vietnam, Jul 2007
• Word-meaning in the English language
-- Nguyen Thi Van Lam, Vinh University, Vietnam, Jul 2004
• English Words, Word-classes and Word-formation
-- Nguyen Thi Van Lam, Vinh University, Vietnam, Jun 2004
• Structure of English Noun phrases
-- Nguyen Thi Van Lam, Vinh University, Vietnam, May 2004
• Grammatical and semantic features of the word denoting happiness 'happy'
-- Nguyen Thi Van Lam, Vinh University, Vietnam,May 2004
• Grammatical and semantic features of some adjectives denoting happiness: the feeling of pleasure
-- Nguyen Thi Van Lam, Vinh University, Vietnam, May 2004

GRAMMAR GLOSSARY -- indx-GramGloss.htm 
• Grammar Glossary includes items relating to the grammars of Burmese, English, Pali, Sanskrit, etc.
It also embraces topics from Linguistics, Phonetics, and the Human Voice.

HUMAN VOICE - indx-HV.htm (update:101214)
Upgraded from ROMABAMA. 

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND TEACHING - LAT4M.htm (update: 080809)
This section is a collection of works on applied linguistics from the point of view of Burmese speaking Myanmars.
You will also find teaching ESL to Burmese speakers both inside and outside the country of Myanmar.

LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT - ling-indx.htm
LANGUAGE AND MEANING - mean-indx.htm
LANGUAGE AND RELIGION - ban-skt-indx.htm

LINGUISTICS - indx-linguistics.htm
Scripts, Brahmi, and other topics.

LITERATURE
Daw Khin Myo Chit - homepage_DawKhinMChit.htm

MATHEMATICS
Dr. Khin Maung Win - homepage_KMW.htm

MYANMAR - index_myanmar.htm
The is a collection of papers on Myanmar: 
¤ Burmese Empire in 18th Century - by Father Vincero Sangermano
¤ Folk Elements in Burmese Buddhism - by Maung (Dr.) Htin Aung
¤ Nat Worship - by U Kyaw Tun
¤ Pali Dictionary - by U Kyaw Tun
¤ Pali Grammar - by U Kyaw Tun
¤ Sense Door Thought Process (Abhidamma Essay) - www.samatha.org/publications/abhidhammapapers/ch3_2.html
  Each time we perceive an object through the senses, a series of thought-moments occurs which constitute a process. These thought moments, or cittas, are according to abhidhamma, different 'minds' or states of mind. One follows another in rapid succession (usually too quickly to be perceived individually) and in a certain order. Normally for the perception of an object through one of the senses, seventeen thought-moments occur.
• Translation of an Inscription in the Pali Character and Burmese Language, on a stone at Buddh Gya, in Behar
  From Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal May, 1834, reprinted in SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2003, ISSN 1479-8484 .

The former section has been sorted out, and material covered by various copyrights have been removed from public viewing. They have been moved to mini-library which is available only in the CD version intended for researchers only.

MYANMAR MEDICINAL PLANTS DATABASE index
A compilation by U Kyaw Tun, U Pe Than, and staff of TIL. (A CD containing a library, intended for researchers, is available in Myanmar. The CD is not for sale, and is available at cost.)
• Over 200 species of plants are listed in this DB.
• The aim of this collection is to present the medicinal plants according to the Burmese-Myanmar names, and an Akshara index is given. However, because of unreliability of the Burmese-Myanmar names, a Family name index is given, and a short description of the plant is entered into the Akshara index.
• The compilation is based on publications, both in Burmese-Myanmar and English, which are not readily available outside Myanmar. The Burmese-Myanmar names have been standardized in accordance with the names listed in official dictionaries published by the MLC (Myanmar Language Commission).
• The family names have been updated to those given in A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, and Climbers of Myanmar (Chklist) -- by W. J. Kress, R. A. DeFillipps, Ellen Farr, and Daw Yin Yin Kyi, (Revised from the original works by J.H. Lace, R. Rodgers, H.G. Hundley, and U Chit Ko Ko, on the "List of Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Principal Climbers, etc. Recorded from Burma"), Department of Systematic Biology - Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, 2003, pp 590. Online: http://persoon.si.edu/myanmar/index.cfm
• Some of the Myanmar sources:
- Botanical Names of Myanmar Plants of Importance, an Index in order of Burmese-Myanmar akshara, by Agricultural Department (Planning), Government of Union of Myanmar, 2000, pp 65.
- Medicinal Plants of Burma (LSR) (in Burmese) {lèý-seik-rhing:}, (former name: Agricultural Department, Government of Burma) 1978, pp 513
- Pictorial Herbal Dictionary (in Burmese) by Shin Nagathein, vols. 1 to 4, 1976.
- Burmese Indigenous Medicinal Plants (in English) by Daw Mya Bwin and U Sein Gwan, Pharmacology Research Division, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Rangoon, 1973.

PHYSICS
• Dr. Zin Tun
A list of publications by Dr. Zin Tun from 1982 to the present (2006). Listed 81 papers.

ROMABAMA -- indx-RBM4M.htm
This collection of works was originally created 070724 in London, Ontario. Contains the following:
• Romabama: Rules for transliteration of Burmese-Myanmar akshara into Latin alphabet
•• Romabama Theory:
¤ The Human Voice ¤ DJPD16 ¤ Phonation types
Note: "Romabama Theory" upgraded moved out as a new folder "Human Voice": the section heading "Romabama Theory" no longer used since 091221.
See under TIL main index:  indx-HV.htm
• Priority of Speech
¤ "Speech Versus Writing" ¤ The Dogma of the Priority
• Language of Gautama Buddha
¤ The Language Problem of Primitive Buddhism ¤ Edicts of King Asoka ¤  Ashoka the Great
• Burmese and English:
¤ Grammar Glossary -- indx-GramGloss.htm
Note: Entered into a new folder on 091221. See under TIL main index: indx-GramGloss.htm
• Burmese-Myanmar language:
¤ Grammar 1 ¤ Grammar 2
¤ Burmese Grammar and Grammatical Analysis (Burmese Grammar 1899, Part 1)
¤ Orthography 
¤ Burmese For Foreign Friends : Introduction to the language and culture
• English-Latin language: (CATE - Computer Assisted Teaching of English)
¤ Grammar in Plain Language ¤ English idioms
• Pali-Myanmar language:
¤ Grammar

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