Countries
Myanmar
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Thai Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Suomi
  
French Name
birman
  
finnois
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
1543
  
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
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
finn1318
  
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, Synthetic
  
Burmese and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Finnish language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Finnish Difficulty
The Burmese vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.