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Mongolian and Burmese


Burmese and Mongolian


Countries

Countries
China, Mongolia  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
China, Mongolia  
Myanmar  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Bangladesh, Burma  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Mon  

Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)  
Myanmar Language Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
  • There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
  • 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
Turkish Language  
Thai Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
13  
10
12  
9

How Many Consonants
20  
10
33  
23

Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script  
Tangut  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
2,000,000.00  
24

Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
123,000.00  
34
440,000.00  
30

Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
90,000.00  
30

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.70 million  
99+
43.00 million  
30

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.50 %  
29

Native Speakers
5.70 million  
99+
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
10.00 million  
23

Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  

French Name
mongol  
birman  

German Name
Mongolisch  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
1224-1225  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Mongolic family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Mongolian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
Not Available  
43  
32

Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
mn  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mon  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
mon  
bur  

ISO 639 3
mon  
mya  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mong1331  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Analytic, Isolating  

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All Mongolian and Burmese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Mongolian and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Mongolian and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Mongolian are spoken in different Mongolian Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Mongolian vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Mongolian dialects include: Khalkha Mongolian, Ordos Mongolian. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Mongolian and Burmese Language Codes

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