Matisoff James A. The Dictionary of Lahu

University of California Press, 1988. — 883 c. — ISBN-10 0520097114; ISBN-13 978 0520097117.Lahu is an important minority language of Southeast Asia, belonging to the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by over 500,000 people in China, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. This "English-Lahu Lexicon" (ELL) is a computer-aided but manually edited "reversal" of the author's monumental Lahu-English dictionary. "English-Lahu Lexicon" contains nearly 5400 head-entries and well over 10,000 carefully arranged subentries. Every Lahu expression is provided with a form-class designation to indicate its grammatical function. It contains eight useful appendices (e.g. Plant and Animal Names) round out the volume's 450 pages.