Three notes on Laufer’s law

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Hill, Nathan W.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Arts and Humanities; Old Tibetan; Old Burmese
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177630

Facets of both Old Tibetan and Old Burmese phonology pose problems for the generalisation, known as Laufer‘s law, that -wa- in in Written Burmese corresponds to -o- in Written Tibetan. Some Tibetan words retain the sequence -wa, appearing to contradict Laufer‘s law. Some Written Burmese words...