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Burmese vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
1  
14

National Language
China, Taiwan  
Myanmar  

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
Bangladesh, Burma  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia  
Mon  

Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  
Myanmar Language Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Thai Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
12  
9

How Many Consonants
23  
13
33  
23

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Tangut  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
请 (Qǐng)  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
2,000,000.00  
24

Dialect 2
Wu  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
1
440,000.00  
30

Dialect 3
Yue  
Intha  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
2
90,000.00  
30

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
43.00 million  
30

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.50 %  
29

Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
10.00 million  
23

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

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

French Name
chinois  
birman  

German Name
Chinesisch  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Han  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
Standard Chinese  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
1  
1
43  
32

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
bur  

ISO 639 3
zho  
mya  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sini1245  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Chinese and Burmese Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Burmese language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Burmese language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD. 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 Chinese and Burmese Language History.

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Chinese and Burmese 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 Chinese and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Burmese language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Burmese Difficulty

The Chinese vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Burmese 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 Chinese and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.

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