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Burmese and Tibetan


Tibetan and Burmese


Countries

Countries
Myanmar  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Myanmar  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Mon  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

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.
  
  • Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
  • Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  

Similar To
Thai Language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Pali Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
5  
2

How Many Consonants
33  
23
30  
20

Scripts
Tangut  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Arakanese  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00  
24
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Tavoyan  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Myanmar  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
440,000.00  
30
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Intha  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Burma  
China  

How Many People Speak
90,000.00  
30
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
43.00 million  
30
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.50 %  
29
Not Available  

Native Speakers
33.00 million  
28
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
10.00 million  
23
Not Available  

Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
birman  
tibétain  

German Name
Birmanisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Bamar people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1113 AD  
c. 650  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Modern Burmese  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
43  
32
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Burmese sign language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
my  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mya  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
bur  
tib  

ISO 639 3
mya  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sout3159  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Not Available  

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All Burmese and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Burmese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Burmese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Burmese are spoken in different Burmese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Burmese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Burmese dialects include: Arakanese, Tavoyan. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Burmese and Tibetan Speaking population

Burmese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Burmese and Tibetan on Burmese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Tibetan Language Codes

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