Analysis of Rime-groups in Northern-Burmish
Jakob Dempsey · Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area · 2003
Within the large Yipo-Burmic (= Lolo-Burmese) branch of Tibeto-Burman, the Burmese language itself has received the most study. Old Burmese inscriptions, most of which date from the twelfth century, are in volume and antiquity no way comparable to Tibetan, let alone Chinese records, but they still remain the third-most useful set of early documentation for Sino-Tibetan languages, and the reconstruction of Burmese has served as both a model and tool for tracking the early development of many languages in East Asia.