#arakanese

The table of pronouns is based on two texts:

Houghton, B. (1897). Art. XVI.—The Arakanese Dialect of the Burman Language. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 29(3), 453–461. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00024679

Morphosyntactic Analysis of Marma Language, authored by Mohammad Ashaduzzaman, Md. Mostafa Rashel (2008)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329071156_Morphosyntactic_Analysis_of_Marma_Language, https://www.academia.edu/416820/Morphosyntactic_Analysis_of_Marma_Language

Table 1: Marma pronouns based on (Houghton, 1897, p.458; Rashel, 2008, p.148) while the Burmese is taken from Wiktionary

ငါတို့ ŋàto̰, which contains a plural marker. The wiktionary page even directly mentions "Cognate with Rakhine -ရို့." meaning ŋoro is we and direct cognate to the Burmese term.

ကျွန် slave < *kron > OC 倌 *kʷˤra[n]-s servant, groom, 宦 *m-kʷˤ<r>a[n]-s eunuch, to hold public office

Direct sources from the articles:

(Houghton, 1897, p.458)

Rubythesunshine - I found this channel to learn Rakhine and my goal is to build wordlists from there, comparing it to Standard Burmese as Standard Burmese has more resources.

Etymology is sourced from Wiktionary, after inputting the Burmese terms in the search bar.

An asterisk indicates a term from Proto-Sino-Tibetan

OC = Old Chinese

Rakhine – English – Burmese – etymology

အရောင် - colour - အရောင် - Areal word. compared to OC 朗 *k.rˤaŋʔ "clear, bright". connected to 亮 *[r]aŋ-s which is said to be from AA *raaŋʔ “light; to shine”, Khmer រង rɔɔŋ “be light, bright"

ပန်းရောင် - Pink - ပန်း - < *baːr to bloom, flower

အနိန် ရောင် - Red - နီ - < *r-ni, compared to OC 怩 *nr[əj] ashamed, 恥 *n̥rəʔ shame, make ashamed

အဝါရောင် - Yellow - ဝါ - < *b/s-wa bright, white, yellow, 黃 yellow

အပြာရောင် - Blue - ပြာ - Wiktionary only lists comparisons with outdated Old Chinese phonology: 翡 *bɯls kingfisher, 白 *bˤrak white

အစီမ်းရောင် - Green - စိမ်း - < *dz(y)im raw, unripe, green

လိမမော်ရောင် - Orange - လိမ္မော် - < Malay limau though it refers to orange fruit in Burmese

ခရမ်းရောင် - Purple - ခရမ်း - equivalent to eggplant, which is comparable to Bangla begun eggplant -> beguni, purple. Wiktionary: “藍 (OC *ɡ·raːm, “indigo”). The first syllable bears some resemblance to 茄 (OC *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl, “eggplant”), seems to be an area word. Compare Old Chinese 紺 (OC *kɯːms, “purple, violet”)”

အညိုရောင် - Brown - ညို - < *s-ŋow is listed but the PST term is mentioned to only refer to light colours so there is a discrepancy in meaning

အဖြူရောင် - White - ဖြူ - < *plu white

အမည်းရောင် - Black - မည်း - < *s-maŋ ~ s-mak, OC: 墨 (*C.mˁək, “ink”), 黑 (*m̥ˁək, dial. *m̥ˁ- › xˁ- (B-S), “black”)

ခဲရောင် - Grey - မီးခိုး - Two different words, Rakhine term in Wiktionary gives "lead, graphite" < *kar, Burmese term means "smoke" < *məj fire + *kuw smoke/ suffer from smoke; *məj fire has been compared to OC 火 *qʷʰˤəjʔ but the initial seems too complex, dialectal 𤈦 *m̥əjʔ fits better and may come from **sməj

Complex colours

စီမ်းပြာရောင် - teal < green+blue

အပြာနုရောင် - baby blue < blue ပြာ+light နု

နု < *now tender, soft, OC 柔 *nu soft

အပြာရင့်ရောင် - navy blue < blue ပြာ+deep ရင့်

ရင့် deep, also mature, late (in pregnancy) < *rkaŋ to be hard, tough

နက်ပြာရောင် - indigo < black/deep နက်+blue ပြာ

နက် black < *nək black, evil, OC 匿 *nr[ə]k to hide, 慝 *n̥ˤək evil

ကြက်သွီးရောင် - maroon < cf. Burmese ကြက်သွေး, there is a Burmese Wikipedia page, the English is "crimson". Individually ကြက် = chicken *k-rak, Wiktionary states it is ancient onomatopoeia, သွေး = blood < *swiʔ, but would a term "chicken blood" be viable as a colour?

ပန်းခရမ်းရောင် - magenta < pink+purple

Commentary

“”ေရႊေမာင္ကို ယခုခ်က္ခ်င္းလြတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အျဖစ္မွထုတ္ျပစ္ေပးပါ၊၊ခ်က္ခ်င္းအေရးယူေပးပါေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း “”

သို႕

သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္( ျပည္ေထာင္စု သမၼတ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ )

အေၾကာင္းအရာ၊၊ ၊၊ ဒုခ်ီးရားတန္း(အေနာက္) ေက်း႐ြာ မီးေလာင္သည့္ျဖစ္စဥ္ႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍…

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Two days after President Obama formally lifted prohibitionson U.S. investment in Burma, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Burmese President Thein Sein, marking another step in the administration’s rapid normalization of relations with the formerly isolated country.

Friday’s meeting came as Clinton was in Cambodia leading a delegation of more than 70 U.S. business leaders to a conference on U.S. investment in Southeast Asia — and where she announced new initiatives aimed at strengthening economic ties with a region that represents a market of 580 million people. The delegation, which includes representatives from Google, General Electric and FedEx, is heading to the Burmese capital this weekend.

While I find 1. obviously partial (biased) write-ups on current Burma's (cycle of) sectarian violence 2. Or only finding longish (and lacking clarity) reports -

I don't think the world has Burma 1 and Burma 2.

And yes Clinton and delegation is in the region now. 

"Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said the group "would expect a strong international response" to any attempt to deport the Rohingya. HRW staff who recently returned from Arakan state said that while both Rohingya and Arakanese were complicit in "terrible violence" during the June rioting, the subsequent mass arrests "focused on Rohingya". Burma 'creating humanitarian crisis' with displacement camps in Arakan (Guardian UK)