1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Myanmar
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Munda 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
Tangut
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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)
Henda ho
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Adi Johar
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Cet’leka menama?
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Boge Ninda
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Boge Ayup’
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Boge Setak’
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Not Available
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Not Available
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Not Available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
India
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 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million6.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Bamar people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available