1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali Language
Sanskrit 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
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)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Sri Lanka
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Bamar people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Modern Sinhalese
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
Fusional