Countries
Myanmar
  
India
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
India
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
NA
  
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.
  
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Thai Language
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
50.00 million
  
22
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
birman
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
15
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
guja1252
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available