The politics of language policy in Myanmar: Imagining togetherness, practising difference?

Language Nation and Development in Southeast Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 150-180

  Hlaing, Kyaw Yin ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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