Social:Ramree dialect

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Short description: Rakhine dialect of Burma
Ramree
Yangbye
Pronunciation[jáɰ̃bjɛ́ bàðà zəɡá]
Native toArakan State
RegionRamree Island, South Arakan Coast, Irrawaddy Division, Bangladesh
Native speakers
(810,000 cited 1983)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • (Tibeto-Burman)
    • Lolo–Burmese
      • Burmish
        • Burmic
          • Burmese
            • Rakhine language
              • Ramree
Language codes
ISO 639-3ybd retired and subsumed into rki[2]
Glottolog(insufficiently attested or not a distinct language)
yang1301[3]

Ramree (Burmese: ရမ်းဗြဲဘာသာစကား, Burmese pronunciation: [jáɰ̃bjɛ́ bàðà zəɡá], also spelt Yanbye or Ranbre) is the main dialect of the Rakhine language spoken in southern Rakhine State of Burma (Myanmar), especially in the areas surrounding Ramree Island, the Awagyun Island and southern coastal regions in Bangladesh. Ramree language is also widely spoken along the western coastline of Irrawaddy Division.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Yangbye at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑ "Glottolog 4.7 - Yangbye". https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yang1301. 
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Yangbye". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yang1301. 
  4. ↑ "Yangbye language Map". http://www.muturzikin.com/cartesasiesudest/6.htm. Retrieved 22 July 2010. 

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