Countries
Indonesia
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
indonésien
  
birman
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
7th Century
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Indonesian and Burmese Speaking population
Indonesian and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Indonesian and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Indonesian and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Indonesian and Burmese on Indonesian vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Indonesian and Burmese Language Codes
Indonesian and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Indonesian and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.