1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Myanmar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Myanmar
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Mon
1.7 Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tangut
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Arakanese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tavoyan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Myanmar
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Intha
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Burma
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
Rank: 30 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.50 %
Rank: 29 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million
Rank: 28 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
5.3.4 French Name
birman
5.3.5 German Name
Birmanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Bamar people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1113 AD
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
my
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
mya
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
bur
7.3 ISO 639 3
mya
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sout3159
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating