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
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Balinese
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Myanmar
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Intha
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Burma
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
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
indo1316
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Burmese language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Burmese Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.