Countries
Myanmar
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Thai Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
آسف
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
birman
  
arabe
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic