1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Myanmar
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali Language
Tamil Language
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
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Hai
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
terima kasih
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Apa khabar?
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Selamat Petang
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Selamat tengah hari
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Selamat pagi
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
sila
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
maaf
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Maafkan saya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.0030,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.003,100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
43.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Bahasa melayu
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
Not Available
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
5.5 Ethnicity
Bamar people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian 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
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Malaysian Sign Language
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative