Re: The origin of the word "Burma", Mynamar and the origin of the people Burman/Myanmar
- From: cope <aBurmeseMuslim@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:55:39 -0700 (PDT)
I forgot to mention that the Burmese Alphabets originated from
ancient Brahmi language that Sanscript itself originated from. So, no
doubt that there has been heavy influence that came for the direction
that is of India and it can;t be just language and culture. Language
and culture are usually brought into by blood mixing. That would also
explains why modern day Burman people does not have typical features
of the original tribes of Mongolia. In the case of tribes like Karen
(Kayin), there has been less blood mixing (also less cultural
development compared to Burman within a given time frame of the early
days) and their appearance seem to not have chngne as much as the
tribe of Mien (Mi-yin).
On May 25, 1:49 pm, cope <aBurmeseMus...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Athttp://tinyurl.com/6k7zqb, one is claiming that the origin of the
Myanmar is Inner Mongolia and language while the other tried to make
connection based linguistic analysis. The following is what I know-
take it or leave it:
- There was a tribe called Mien that even the current day Chinese
knows about (obviously reading their history) that entered the region
of what is now Burma. In fact, there were two waves of their arrival.
With the second wave, they became more in population compared to Phu,
another Tibeto-Burman tribe. Now, does that make current day Burmese
purely Tibeto-Burma? Far from it. Current day Burman/Mynamar are
mixed of Mien (or) Mi-yin with this and that including descendants of
a Negrito race which was later re-termed as Australo-Negroid by
Scientist. Anyway, it makes sense if the word "Myanmar" derived form
the word "Mien" or "Mi-yin",
- The kings of Burma, except Aluangpaya Dynasty were largely of Indian
Brahman blood and in fact, the very first king who founded the first
Burman empire came from India and hence India. (Anyone who grew up in
Burma would know the prince "YazaKomar", I would say. Would it be so
hard to understand that it was Burmese way of spelling "Raja Kumar"?
The west may have invented the word "Burma" due to the royal families
of Burma using words whose origin was Brahman.
So neither Burma or Myanmar would truly represent all the ethnic
groups in Burma linguistically but at least when British ruled Burma,
Burma was known as a country of many different tribes and since the
word Burma has been in use for a long time, the word "Burma" would
represent all ethnic tribes in Burma more so that the word "Myanmar".
SPDC/SLORC changing the name from Burma to Myanmar is noting but a
stupid act which might have been done with the intention to fool the
world's population to hide their bloody human rights abuse records.
.
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