1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Pali Language
Not Available
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
Tangut
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
您好
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
早上好
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
请
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
遗憾
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
再见
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
outside mainland China
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 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Bamar people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Cantonese
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available