1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Myanmar
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Dagbani Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali Language
Not Available
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)
Kia ora
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Laafi bala
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Laafi beme ?
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Ne y yungo
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
ne y zabre
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Kia ora
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Ne y yibeogo
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
gafare
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
gafare
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Wend na kon-d nindaare
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Y gafare
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Burkina Faso
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.00NA
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 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.4 Native Speakers
33.00 million7.60 million
0.13
873
1.4.1 Second Language Speakers
1.5.1 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Mosse
1.5.2 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Not Available
1.5.3 French Name
1.5.4 German Name
1.6 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
1.7 Ethnicity
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
2.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic
2.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Gur (Voltaic)
2.3 Language Forms
2.3.1 Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
2.3.2 Standard Forms
2.3.3 Language Position
2.3.4 Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Not Available
2.4 Scope
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.2 ISO 639 2
3.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
3.3 ISO 639 3
3.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Glottocode
3.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
3.7 Types of Language
3.7.1 Language Type
3.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
3.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available