Countries
Myanmar
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
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
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
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