Countries
Myanmar
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Thai Language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
sorry
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
birman
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic