Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Myanmar
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
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Pali Language
Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Arakanese
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Myanmar
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Burma
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
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Ethnicity
Han
Bamar people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sini1245
sout3159
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating
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.