1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Myanmar
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Not Available
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 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Myanmar
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Burma
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
43.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
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 Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating