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BURMESE-YI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Burmese-Yi mean? 

BURMESE-YI (noun)
  The noun BURMESE-YI has 1 sense:

1. the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnanplay

  Familiarity information: BURMESE-YI used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BURMESE-YI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Burmese-Yi; Lolo-Burmese

Hypernyms ("Burmese-Yi" is a kind of...):

Tibeto-Burman; Tibeto-Burman language (a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Burmese-Yi"):

Burmese (the official language of Burma)

Loloish (languages spoken by hill tribes in northern Burma and neighboring areas)


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