Countries
Myanmar
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Thai Language
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Myanmar
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
birman
  
birman
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
1113 AD
  
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 Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Burmese and Burmese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Burmese and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Burmese language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Burmese Difficulty
The Burmese vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Burmese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Burmese and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.