Myanmar (Burma) - February 13, 2025 Young artists from the Mon ethnic group held a performance this Thursday to celebrate the 78th Mon National Day in the Burmese city of Yangon.

Members of the Mon tribe's artist troupe perform a traditional ... Feb. 13, 2025, in Yangon, Myanmar.

He is a scholar who has drunk deep of ancient Burma — of Pali, Pyu, Old Mon and Old Burmese. Yet few of his poems are burdened with scholarship. Long-winded rigamarole is utterly eschewed.

The Burmese language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Tibeto-Chinese family of languages, but, unlike Chinese, it is not ideographic. That is, it does not have characters which originated ...