WHAT DOES LAHU MEAN IN MALAY?
Definition of lahu in the Malay dictionary
lahu; Idle 1. Do not make or do any work that is useful, unemployed: many more graduates are still ~ even though they have graduated from university; he is worried because ~ does not work; 2. Do not do anything at leisure: sitting ~ after eating is boring; 3. move slowly with neutral gear: no vibration or vibration during engine ~; 4. do not carry any handling or beneficial tasks while waiting for user action.
10 MALAY BOOKS RELATING TO «LAHU»
Discover the use of
lahu in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lahu and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Malay literature.
Every Lahu expression is provided with a form-class designation to indicate its grammatical function. Eight useful Appendices (e.g. Plant and Animal Names) round out the volume's 450 pages.
The Dictionary of Lahu is one of the most exhaustive and sophisticated dictionaries yet produced for a Southeast Asian language.
In hopes of helping their poor village, a fifteen-year-old Lahu boy and his friends secretly sow and harvest a crop of opium poppies they can sell to Chinese traders.
Jane Hamilton-Merritt,
1973
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The Lahu Minority in Southwest China: A Response to ...
Lahu identity. As the Lahu nationality, both the Lahu and the Kucong are settled in the southern Ailao Mountains, particularly in the counties of Puer Prefecture, Lincang Prefecture and Sipongpanna Dai Autonomous District. The most ...
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Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs: Gender Unity and Gender ...
THE LAHU PEOPLE The Lahu are a Tibeto-Burman-speaking people (Chang 1986:1; Matisoff 1988:11) who are divided into several subgroups with mutually intelligible dialects and slightly different subcultures, including the Lahu Na, the ...
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Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the ...
Lahu is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken as a first language by about 650,000 people in southwestern Yunnan in China (about 360,000 in the 1990 census), the Shan State of Myanmar, northwestern Laos and northern Thailand (about ...
S. A. Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler, Darrell T. Tyron,
1996
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Eclectic Collecting: Art from Burma in the Denison Museum
The Denison University collection contains fine examples of the bags and the distinctive blue-black, indigo-dyed clothing decorated in lively applique of the Lahu. This material includes six coats, three pairs of trousers, four skirts, a woman's ...
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Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms ...
The role of codification in writing reform: The cases of Lahu and Jingpo It is interesting to note that not all reformed missionary writing systems have failed to be accepted in minority communities with a strong Christian tradition. Writing reforms ...
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TO THE MOUNTAIN TOPS: A Sojourn Among The Lahu of ...
The Mekong and Salween, the two great rivers of Southeast Asia, form the east and west boundaries of the Lahu in Yunnan, China, and Burma. In Laos, there are several thousand households east of the Mekong, in the Hwe Hsai and Muang ...
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Ethnic Groups of North, East, and Central Asia: An ... - Halaman 159
The Lahu population of China is estimated at 455,000 out of a total population of 750,000. The Lahu comprise the 56 offi- cially recognized nationalities in the Peo- pleÊs Republic of China. Their language forms part of the Loloish branch of ...