Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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.
  
Similar To
Indonesian Language
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
sila
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Myanmar
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
malais
  
birman
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Burmese language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Burmese Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.