1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Thai Language
Xhosa Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Ngiyacela
3.9 Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
bye
3.11 I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Tavoyan
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Myanmar
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
440,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
43.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
33.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Isizulu, Zunda
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
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Not Available
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
No data available
99-AUT-fg
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
Not Available