1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Myanmar
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Myanmar
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Not Available
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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Good Morning
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Please
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Sorry
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Bye
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Arakanese
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Myanmar
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.004,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.002,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
43.00 million1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million400.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million400.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
English
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Bamar people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed English
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic