Marc Miyake
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Marc Hideo Miyake is an American linguist who specializes in historical linguistics, particularly the study of Old Japanese and Tangut.
Miyake at the British Museum in 2015
Pyu language (Sino-Tibetan)
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The Pyu language is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was mainly spoken in what is now Myanmar in the first millennium CE. It was the vernacular of the Pyu city-states, which thrived between the s
Marc Miyake
…his work on the extinct Tangut language. Between 2015 and 2019, Miyake was a research assistant at the British Museum, working on the decipherment of Pyu inscriptions. At the same time he was also a research associate in the Department of Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Miyake…
Pyu alphabet
Pyu Inscription from Hanlin
Myazedi inscription