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Romabama

Burmese-Myanmar Written Language in Latin Script
Standalone CD version

RBM4M.htm

U Kyaw Tun, M.S. (I.P.S.T., U.S.A.), Deep River, Ontario, Canada. Not for sale. No copyright. Free for everyone. Prepared for students of TIL Computing and Language Center, Yangon, MYANMAR .

Last major update: 061123 - hard disk failure on 061211. I am continuing from backup 061201
Last major update: 031123

Font used for these pages is exclusively Arial Unicode MS.
For Burmese-Myanmar characters, I use my own designed .gif pix based on WinInnwa font.

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This is the main index for all my works connected with Romabama and languages particularly English and Burmese. This collection of works was originally created 070724 in London, Ontario.
I am bringing these together to keep the rules of Romabama at the same update.

• Romabama: Rules for transliteration of Burmese-Myanmar akshara into Latin alphabet
• Romabama Theory:

The Human Voice: background of Romabama
  by Joe K. Tun, Deep River, first version 080327
DJPD16 Daniel Jones English Pronouncing Dictionary 16th edition:
  
source of English pronunciation
Phonation types: a cross-lingusitic overview,
   by M. Gordon and P. Ladefoged, Journal of Phonetics (2001) 29, 383-406, 
   online: www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/gordon/phonation.pdf 071212
(Other materials in preparation, at present included as a part of Burmese-Myanmar Grammar 2: MLC)
"Speech Versus Writing" in Derrida and Bhartṛhari
 
by Harold G. Coward, in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 41, No. 2 (1991), pp.141-162, Univ. of Hawaii Press.
  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ew95321.htm 071115 
The Dogma of the Priority of Speech in Language Teaching
  by Vivian Cook draft as of March 2001, University of Essex, United Kingdom

• Burmese and English
Grammar Glossary
-- indx-GramGloss.htm

• Burmese-Myanmar language
Grammar 1: MLC
-- BG4M-indx.htm
Grammar 2: MLC -- BG4M2-indx.htm
   Part of UKT' introduction has been moved into a separate folder, The Human Voice, on 080327
Orthography: MLC -- BO4M-indx.htm

• English-Latin language
Grammar in Plain Language -- indx-GPE.htm
English idioms -- indx-Eidiom.htm

• Pali-Myanmar language
Grammar -- pal-indx.htm

• Libray index - not included in the internet version - LibRBM4M.htm
Collected papers in the library of RBM4M.
CD versions of RBM4M contains a library of resources which is excluded from the internet version to protect the copyrights of the authors.

References
UKT notes

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Reference

(in Burmese-Myanmar)
(Note: MLC has been renamed several times.)
• Glass-Palace - The Glass Palace Chronicles, written in 1819 to 1837), repub. by Min. of Info., Myanmar Gov., 4th reprint in Bur-Myan, in 3 volumes.
• MEDict - Myanmar English Dictionary
    by MLC, 1993, pp 635
• MMDict - Travelling Pocket Myanmar Dictionary
   Bur-Myan to Bur-Myan)  by MLC, 1999, pp 401.
• MOrtho - Myanmar Orthography (MOrtho),
  U Tun Tint editor, Myanmar Language Commission (MLC), 1986, pp292
• ModPMDict - Modern Pali-Myanmar Dictionary
   by {a.rhing Dam~math~tha-mi-Bi.wδn-tha.}, Yangon, 2005, pp938 - in Bur-Myan
• PMDict - Compendium Pali Dictionary {pa-Li. a.Bi.Daan-hkyoap},
   by {lθύ-ti-paN~Πi.ta.} U Maung Gyi, Rangoon, 1966, pp.524 - in Bur-Myan
• Myanmar Thudda, vol. 1 to 5 in Bur-Myan, Text-book Committee,
   Basic Edu., Min. of Edu., Myanmar, ca. 1986
• "Pali Lessons" Module {a.ra.}-111{ka.}, (in Burmese) Univ. of Distance Education, 1999.
• "Pali Lessons" Module {a.ra.}-1001 Pali grammar, (in Burmese)
   Yangon Univ. of Distance Education, 2003
• UHS-Dict - Universal Burmese-English-Pali Dictionary - U Hoke Sein, First edition, 1980, pp1064 .
• UHS-PaliDict - {pa.dat~hta.miρ-tha} Pali-Myanmar Dictionary - U Hoke Sein, 1999, pp1180
• U Tun Tint - editor (retd.), MLC - personal communication.

 

(in English-Latin)
• AHTD. American Heritage Talking Dictionary
• Childers - Dictionary of Pali Language, R. C. Childers, 1909
• DJPD16. - Daniel Jones, English Pronouncing Dictionary, 16 ed,
   Cambridge University Press 2003.
• Narada - Ven. Narada Thera, An Elementary Pali Course,
   Buddha Dhamma Association, Inc. (Sri Lanka)  www.buddhanet.net
• Htin Aung - Maung Htin Aung, Folk Elements in Burmese Buddhism,
  
Religious Affairs Department Press, Yegu, Kaba Aye P.O., Rangoon, Burma, 1981.
• PTS (Pali Text Soc.) - Pali-English Dictionary, ed. Rhys Davids and W. Stede,
   reprint 1999 (1st publ. 1921-1925)
• Unicode Standard, Version 4.0, Unicode Consortium,
   Chapter 9, http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch9.pdf
   Chapter 10, http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch10.pdf
• http://www.umanitoba.ca/linguistics/index.shtml

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U Kyaw Tun

U Kyaw Tun joined the Department of Chemistry, University of Rangoon, as an assistant lecturer in 1955. He was assigned as lecturer to the first year science students at the Yankin College. His duties were extended further the following year as lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry to the third year science students (those taking Chemistry) at the main campus in addition to his duties at the Yankin College. He served for 33 years in various universities and colleges throughout Myanmar: Rangoon University, Rangoon Institute of Technology, Mandalay University, Bassein College, Workers’ College and Taunggyi College. His last posting from which he retired was Associate Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry, Taunggyi Degree College.
     Though trained as a scientist and engineer, U Kyaw Tun has a keen interest in the culture, history, religion and mythology of various peoples of the world. His knowledge of several languages: Myanmar, English, French, Pali, Swedish and German has helped him in his cultural studies. He has an extensive knowledge of Hindu astrology, specializing the Ashtakavarga system.
     U Kyaw Tun was a part-time columnist writing for the Working Peoples’ Daily in Myanmar and was a member on the editorial board of the North Renfrew Times in Canada. He has given several public lectures in Canada on Buddhism particularly to scientists and engineers, and to non-Buddhists.

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UKT notes

01. Abugida: http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node=abugida
     Nasal: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=nasal
02. D. Vujastyk, 25 June 1996 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/members/transliteration/translit.pdf.

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