Countries
Myanmar
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Institute of the Estonian 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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Thai Language
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Tere
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Palun
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
birman
  
estonien
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Estonians
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Burmese and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Estonian language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Estonian Difficulty
The Burmese vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Estonian 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 Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.