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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 4280 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: Merit and the Millennium: Routine and Crisis in the Ritual Lives of the Lahu People.(Book Review)
Author: James A. Matisoff
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 124...

Lahu is an important minority language of Southeast Asia, belonging to the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by over 500,000 people in China, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
This English-Lahu Lexicon (ELL) is a computer-aided but manually edited "reversal" of the author's monumental Lahu-English dictionary (The Dictionary of Lahu, UCPL #111, 1988, xxv + 1436 pp.).
English-Lahu Lexicon contains nearly 5400 head-entries and well over 10,000 carefully arranged subentries. 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...
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