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adj
Of or relating to a language family of Sino-Tibetan languages, most closely related to Burmese and its relatives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
languages spoken by hill tribes in northern Burma and neighboring areas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Lolo-Burmese, Burmese-Yi
Narrower terms: Lisu, Hani, Akha, Lahu, Lolo, Yi
History
From Lolo + -ish.
