SAWADA, Hideo

Positions, degrees

Professor

Research Keywords

descriptive linguistics, grammatology, mainland Southeast Asia

Email

sawadah[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp

　

I am conducting grammatical and phonological descriptions of minority languages spoken in Kachin State, located in the northernmost part of Myanmar, such as Lhaovo, Lhangsu, and Lacid, which are genetically close to Burmese.
I am also studying the phonogramic mechanisms of the Indic scripts used in mainland Southeast Asia (especially the Burmese script) and their evolution.