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Burmese vs Ukrainian


Ukrainian vs Burmese


Countries

Countries
Myanmar  
Ukraine  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Myanmar  
Ukraine  

Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
Mon  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia  

Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
  • Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
  • Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  

Similar To
Thai Language  
Russian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Pali Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
6  
3

How Many Consonants
33  
23
22  
12

Scripts
Tangut  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)  

Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)  

How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)  

Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)  

Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)  

Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)  

Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)  

Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  
будь ласк  

Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  
вибачте (vybachte)  

Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  
до побачення (do pobachennya)  

I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Arakanese  
Podillian  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia  

How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00  
24
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Tavoyan  
Volynian  

Where They Speak
Myanmar  
Rivne, Volyn  

How Many People Speak
440,000.00  
30
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Intha  
Steppe  

Where They Speak
Burma  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine  

How Many People Speak
90,000.00  
30
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
15  
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
43.00 million  
30
39.00 million  
32

Speaking Population
0.50 %  
29
0.46 %  
30

Native Speakers
33.00 million  
28
39.00 million  
25

Second Language Speakers
10.00 million  
23
Not Available  

Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)  

Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  
Not Available  

French Name
birman  
ukrainien  

German Name
Birmanisch  
Ukrainisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]  

Ethnicity
Bamar people  
Ukrainians  

History

Origin
1113 AD  
1561  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Slavic  

Branch
Not Available  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian  

Standard Forms
Modern Burmese  
Modern Ukrainian  

Language Position
43  
32
26  
22

Signed Forms
Burmese sign language  
Ukrainian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
my  
uk  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mya  
ukr  

ISO 639 2/B
bur  
ukr  

ISO 639 3
mya  
ukr  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sout3159  
ukra1253  

Linguasphere
No data available  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Burmese and Ukrainian Language History

Comparison of Burmese vs Ukrainian language history gives us differences between origin of Burmese and Ukrainian language. History of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD whereas history of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Burmese and Ukrainian Language History.

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Burmese and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Ukrainian language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Burmese vs Ukrainian Difficulty

The Burmese vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.

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