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my.toml holds a single word, the junior word ဂျူနီယာ. No Burmese honorific or title is listed, so each reads as a name (measured on ccaf6ad):
| Input | title | given | family |
|---|---|---|---|
ဒေါက်တာ ထင်အောင် (Dr. Htin Aung) |
'' |
ဒေါက်တာ |
ထင်အောင် |
ဦး နု (U Nu) |
'' |
ဦး |
နု |
ဦးနု (U Nu) |
'' |
ဦးနု |
'' |
မောင်မောင်ခ၊ ဦး |
'' |
မောင်မောင်ခ၊ |
ဦး |
Measured (2026-11-08) on Wikidata's Burmese labels of people with Myanmar citizenship (2,604). Most write the name unspaced and without the honorific. The honorific appears in three places:
- after the Burmese comma (271, The Ethiopic comma
፣isn't read as a comma (ከበደ፣ አበበgives givenከበደ፣) #1202's comment: ဦး 76, ဒေါ် 18, ဒေါက်တာ 16, a general's rank 8, သခင် 8) - glued to the front of an unspaced name (13 open with ဦး, as in
ဦးနု) - as a separate word (a few:
ဒေါက်တာ ထင်အောင်)
Proposal
Readings in my.toml for the words that are never a name in Burmese script: ဦး (U) and ဒေါ် (Daw) as salutations, ဒေါက်တာ (Doctor) academic, ဗိုလ်ချုပ် (General) and its ranks military, ဆရာတော် (Sayadaw) and အရှင် (Ashin) religious, သခင် (Thakin) a style. These are native-script readings, which nothing outside Burmese can collide with, the same footing as he.toml's titles. Simulated with a caller's lexicon:
"ဒေါက်တာ ထင်အောင်" → title="ဒေါက်တာ", family="ထင်အောင်"
"ဦး နု" → title="ဦး", family="နု"
Questions
- ဦး is also a name syllable, Oo, at the end of a name (
ကိုကိုဦး, Ko Ko Oo). The title reading only acts at the head, so a separate leading ဦး is safe. Should it be a default, or wait for amychoice (Should a Burmese choice readUandDawas titles, and stopSanjoining the family? (Daw Aung San Suu Kyigives given 'Daw', family 'San Suu Kyi') #1231)? - ကို (Ko), မ (Ma) and မောင် (Maung) are honorifics that also start names (
ကိုကို, Ko Ko). Should they be left out? - The glued form
ဦးနုis Thai honorifics are glued to the given name (นายสมชาย → given "นายสมชาย") #317's mechanism (a listed honorific split off the front of a word, asked for Thai). In Burmese the split would also have to land on a syllable boundary, and ဦး is the only one of these frequent enough in the data to measure. Should Burmese wait for Thai honorifics are glued to the given name (นายสมชาย → given "นายสมชาย") #317? - A title and one name word read that word as the family (H1, a title and one name word), so
ဦး နုputs the given name Nu in the family. Should a Burmese choice readUandDawas titles, and stopSanjoining the family? (Daw Aung San Suu Kyigives given 'Daw', family 'San Suu Kyi') #1231 asks the same for LatinU Thant.
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non-latin-scriptNames written in a script other than Latin (rules/W)Names written in a script other than Latin (rules/W)titlesTitles and honorifics (rules/H)Titles and honorifics (rules/H)vocabularyFixed by a word-list entry: per-word vocabulary and language packsFixed by a word-list entry: per-word vocabulary and language packs
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