Countries
Myanmar
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Thai Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Germany
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
birman
  
allemand
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Germans
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
6th Century AD
  
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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic