A Morphological Study of Burmese Words Used in Sagaing Division of Myanmar

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The purposes of the study are: 1) to investigate the morphological system of Burmese in Sagaing Division of Myanmar; 2) to compare the morphological system with standard Burmese language. This thesis is concerned with documentary research and qualitative research. The data is gathered by in-depth interviews and an informal focus group, individual discussions and observations of the officers on-duty. The population of the study were totally 380 divided students and villagers who lived in Thaung Gyi village of Sagaing Division. The samples of the study included totally 191 students and villagers got by the purposive sampling method. Statistics for analysing data included Percentage, Mean and Standard Deviation (S.D.).

The findings of the study were found as follows: The researcher found that firstly, the finding of morphological words explored data in two categories such questionnaires were male and female information stated.

For the secondly, the researcher found that the result of test in the difficulty of word class compound used in both languages was at “very little” level of evaluation such “car-wheel”, “language school”. For the difficulties of Superordinate-Subordinate compound of Burmese list used at “very little” level of evaluation such “robber-man and teacher-house”. The compound of Burmese morphology list used at very little with the words such “working-place and monastery-ground”. The semantic compound Burmese morphology list used at “very little” level of evaluation such “happiness and mind reader”. The difficulties of rhyming compound forms of Burmese morphology list were at “very little” level of evaluation such “Poison pen letter and delusion way”. The difficulties of affixed compound nouns of Burmese morphology list were at “very little” level of evaluation such “drinking water and eating and drinking”. The difficulties of nominalization of Burmese morphology list were at “very little” level of evaluation such “development party and teaching method”. The difficulties of reduplication of Burmese morphology list used in each language was at very little level of evaluation such “think tank and liberation activities”.