1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Myanmar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Myanmar Language Commission
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Tamil Language
Pali Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hai
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
terima kasih
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat pagi
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
sila
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
maaf
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.00440,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0090,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million43.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
98.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Bamar people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Burmese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Burmese sign language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating