Talk:Burmese chronicles

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Ok, found some sourcing and there's a separate article on it, so the Burmese can stay there. If Google's romanization is wonky, kindly repair it but don't just leave the Burmese without any transliteration. — LlywelynII 14:36, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A few points:

1. Please see this discussion [1] on why it's royal chronicles of Burma/Myanmar.
2. I'd be careful about using Google Translate for Burmese. It's only as good as people who have put in the values. As a native Burmese speaker, I can tell you that Yazawin literally/formally means history of kings (although it's used as shorthand for ancient history in everyday speech.)
3. I'd be very very very careful about using Google's (any other non-academic entity's) transliterations. Because there isn't a transliteration standard in popular use—MLCTS isn't used outside academia—a Burmese word could have multiple Romanized forms, depending on the translator's knowledge of English. (English because most Burmese are Anglicizing the Burmese words. Most lay Burmese, I suspect, don't know or care the difference between Romanization and Anglicization.) Anyway, Google's "Myanmar Rarjawain Kyammyarr" is quite a bad transliteration. Painful. Compare that with the IPA in the article. Hybernator (talk) 03:27, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As well, the article should

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