Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Latin
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
Please
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Bye
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
I love you
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
English
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
anglais
  
birman
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating