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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
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200   
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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