read in a southwestern variety of Eastern Han Chinese.

Classification

A vocabulary of some 134 words and phrases has been extracted from the text, including 21 Chinese loanwords. Some 80 of the remaining words have been compared, with varying levels of confidence, to possible Tibeto-Burman cognates.Most authors conclude that Bailang is Lolo-Burmese.However, Coblin argues that some Bailang words appear to be more conservative than reconstructed Proto-Lolo-Burmese, and that it is

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