Countries
Countries
Myanmar
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Myanmar
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Thai Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Pali Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
33
15
54
33
Phonology
How Many Vowels
12
9
18
15
How Many Consonants
33
23
36
26
Scripts
Tangut
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
3
2
2
1
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
11
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Vedda
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
24
Not Available
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Not Available
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Not Available
How Many People Speak
440,000.00
30
Not Available
Dialect 3
Intha
Not Available
Where They Speak
Burma
Not Available
How Many People Speak
90,000.00
30
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
5
5
1
1
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
30
16.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
0.50 %
29
0.25 %
99+
Native Speakers
33.00 million
28
16.00 million
39
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
23
2.00 million
34
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
birman
singhalais
German Name
Birmanisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Sinhalese people
History
Origin
1113 AD
3
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
43
32
70
99+
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
my
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
sin
ISO 639 2/B
bur
sin
ISO 639 3
mya
sin
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sout3159
sinh1246
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
Fusional
