1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Myanmar
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Mon
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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)
ND
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
ND
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
ND
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
ND
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
ND
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
ND
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
ND
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
ND
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
ND
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
ND
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.001,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
43.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Cambodian, Khmer
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Birmanisch
Kambodschanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
5.5 Ethnicity
Bamar people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic 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
Proto-Khmer
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Modern Khmer
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
Not Available
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, Isolating