A post from the archives
11th Century
Loan words in Burmese language
Burmese (Myanma) is a Tibeto-Burman language. This means that Burmese, Tibetan, and the other languages in this family are likely descended from a common ancestral language, spoken thousands of years ago. An older form of Burmese was first reduced to writing in the 11th century using a script from south India.
Burmese is part of the Burmese-Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. Yi – spoken by over ten million people, mainly in southwestern China – is very close to...
Explore Myanmar History through a Timeline
About this project
The aim of this website is to promote interest in Myanmar's amazing history.Our hope is to challenge the often two-dimensional and uncritical views of history taught in Myanmar by reexamining key periods in the country's past. We would like as well to reveal the rich multicultural nature of Myanmar's history and its deep and ongoing ties to global events and trends.Finally, this website will also delve into the history of neighbouring regions, such as Yunnan in China and the Northeast in India, in the hope of introducing these places to a Myanmar audience.We believe that meeting Myanmar's many challenges today will require fresh imaginative thinking. This is turn will only be possible with a clear and critical understanding of Myanmar and global history.