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Authored Books

Okell, John (2002) Burmese by ear, or Essential Myanmar. London: Audio-Forum, Sussex Publications Limited.

Okell, John and Allott, Anna J. (2001) Burmese/Myanmar dictionary of grammatical forms. Abingdon: Routledge.

Okell, John (1995) Burmese: an introduction to the literary style. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Okell, John (1995) Burmese: an introduction to the script. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Okell, John (1995) Burmese: an introduction to the spoken language. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Okell, John (1989) First steps in Burmese. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Okell, John (1971) A guide to the romanization of Burmese. Cambridge: Luzac [for] The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. (Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. James G. Forlong Fund. Publications ; v. 27)

Okell, John (1969) A reference grammar of colloquial Burmese. Abingdon: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Okell, John (1989) 'The Yaw Dialect of Burmese.' In: Davidson, Jeremy H. C. S., (ed.), South East Asian linguistics: essays in honour of Eugénie J A Henderson. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 199-202.

Okell, John (1988) 'Notes on Tone Alternation in Maru Verbs.' In: Bradley, David, Henderson, Eugénie J.A. and Mazaudon, Martine, (eds.), Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R.K. Sprigg. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, pp. 109-114. (Pacific Linguistics C-104)

Journal Article

Okell, John (2007) 'Obituary - Dr. U Hla Pe (1913-2007).' SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, 5 (1-2). pp. 1-4.

Okell, John (1995) 'Three Burmese Dialects.' Papers in Southeast Asian linguistics no. 13: Studies in Burmese Languages. pp. 1-138.

Okell, John (1994) 'Review of J. A. Matisoff. A dictionary of Lahu.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 57 (2). pp. 434-435.

Okell, John (1982) 'Review of U Hoke Sein and The Universal Burmese-English-Pali Dictionary.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 7 (2). pp. 115-120.

Okell, John (1979) ''Still' and 'anymore' in Burmese.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 4 (2). pp. 69-82.

Okell, John (1971) 'The Burmese Double-Reed "Nhai".' Asian Music, 2 (1). pp. 25-31.

Okell, John (1965) 'Nissaya Burmese: a case of systematic adaptation to a foreign grammar and syntax.' Lingua, 15. pp. 186-227.

Okell, John (1964) 'Learning Music from a Burmese Master.' Man, New Series, 64. p. 183.

Pe, Hla, Allott, Anna J. and Okell, John (1963) 'Three 'Immortal' Burmese Songs.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 26 (3). pp. 559-571.

Conference or Workshop Items

Okell, John (1971) K Clusters in Proto-Burmese. In: Sino-Tibetan Conference, October 8–9, 1971, Bloomington, Indiana.

Book Reviews

Okell, John (1981) 'Review of Denise Bernot and Dictionnaire birman-français.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 6 (2). pp. 83-103.