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Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) funerary chants: Two Lahu texts with a brief ethnographic introduction

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1978
The two texts presented here are part of a rich corpus of Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) ritual prayers and chants, some of which I was able to record during the course of my anthropological investigations among these Tibeto-Burman-speaking hill folk in the mountains of north Thailand. As I have stated in two previous contributions to this Journal, I am concerned
Anthony R. Walker
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Lahu bilingual humor

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1969
Abstract In 1965–6 I recorded a large number of texts in Lahu (a Loloish language of the Tibeto-Burman family), mostly in the “standard” Black Lahu dialect spoken in several Christianized villages of Ghiengmai Province, Thailand. These texts show great diversity of style and content, ranging from highly formal sermons and serious conversations to skits,
James A Matisoff
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Review of "English-Lahu lexicon"

open access: yesLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2012
Following nearly 20 years after the publication of James Matisoff’s Dictionary of Lahu (1988), the corresponding reversed English-Lahu Lexicon is a welcome addition to Lolo-Burmese resources as well as a testament to the advancement in methods of ...
Butler, Katie L.
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A brief encounter with Lahu tones

open access: yesLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1983
The Lahu tone system has been extensively described by Matisoff (1973 and references therein). Standard Lahu has five open (non-checked) tones (Mid, High rising, High falling, Low falling, Low) and two checked tones (High checked and Low checked). All 49
Hombert, Jean-Marie
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The cognate noun/verb construction in Lahu

open access: yesLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1996
The cognate noun/verb construction is nowhere near as productive in Lahu as it is in Akha, but there are still a fair number of examples. I have found about 40 in the Dictionary of Lahu (DL).
Matisoff, James A.
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The Lahu Minority in Southwest China

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The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a ...
Ma, Jianxiong
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