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First Edition. First edition, first printing (2000 cioies printed), 8vo, pp. [4], 507, [1]; fine clean and sound copy in original blue and yellow wrappers. Text in Chinese. Kachin State is the northernmost state of Myanmar. "Burmese and Jingpho are lingua francas of Kachin State. Since Burma achieved independence in 1948, significant numbers of Burmese speakers have settled in Kachin State, which has accelerated a language shift from Jingpho to Burmese. Other Kachin tribes speak and write their own language: the Zaiwa, the Rawang, and the Lisu, who speak both the Lisu language and the Lipo language. English is also widely spoken as a working language" (Wikipedia).