Home
Languagevs


About Burmese Language



Countries
0

Countries
Myanmar 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Myanmar 0

Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma 0

Speaking Continents
Asia 0

Minority Language
Mon 0

Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission 0

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.
0

Similar To
Thai Language 0

Derived From
Pali Language 0

Alphabets
0

Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
33 15

Phonology
0

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
33 23

Scripts
Tangut 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
0

Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) 0

Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai) 0

How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?) 0

Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar) 0

Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par) 0

Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par) 0

Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar) 0

Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu) 0

Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal) 0

Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal) 0

I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal) 0

Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a) 0

Dialects
0

Dialect 1
Arakanese 0

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar 0

How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00 24

Dialect 2
Tavoyan 0

Where They Speak
Myanmar 0

How Many People Speak
440,000.00 30

Dialect 3
Intha 0

Where They Speak
Burma 0

How Many People Speak
90,000.00 30

Total No. Of Dialects
5 5

How Many People Speak
0

How Many People Speak?
43.00 million 30

Speaking Population
0.50 % 29

Native Speakers
33.00 million 28

Second Language Speakers
10.00 million 23

Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka) 0

Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa 0

French Name
birman 0

German Name
Birmanisch 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Bamar people 0

History
0

Origin
1113 AD 0

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family 0

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
0

Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese 0

Standard Forms
Modern Burmese 0

Language Position
43 32

Signed Forms
Burmese sign language 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
0

ISO 639 1
my 0

ISO 639 2
0

ISO 639 2/T
mya 0

ISO 639 2/B
bur 0

ISO 639 3
mya 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
sout3159 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb 0

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating 0

Summary >>
<< Code

Know Alphabets in Burmese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Burmese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Burmese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Burmese. Burmese phonology gives Burmese vowels and Burmese consonants. There are 12 vowels and 33 consonants in Burmese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Burmese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Burmese language is given in detail in this section.

Most Spoken Languages

All Burmese countries

Want to explore all Burmese countries? About Burmese language serves you with all Burmese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Burmese as official language are called as Burmese countries.

  • Countries that use Burmese as their National Language are: Myanmar.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Burmese as second language are: Bangladesh, Burma.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Compare Most Spoken Languages

Learn Burmese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Burmese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Burmese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Burmese language.Learn Burmese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  • Thank you: ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  • Good Morning: မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  • Good Evening: မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  • Good Afternoon: မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

All Burmese Language Codes

Get to know all Burmese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Burmese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

Most Spoken Languages

» More Most Spoken Languages

Compare Most Spoken Languages

» More Compare Most Spoken Languages