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Serbian vs Burmese


Burmese vs Serbian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
1  
14

National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia  
Myanmar  

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

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia  
Mon  

Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language  
Myanmar Language Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
  • 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
Bosnian and Croatian Languages  
Thai Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
25  
15
33  
23

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Tangut  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
Молим (Molim)  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

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

Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
Serbia  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
440,000.00  
30

Dialect 3
Torlakian  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00  
17
90,000.00  
30

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
5  
5

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.50 %  
29

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
10.00 million  
23

Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

Alternative Names
Montenegrin  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  

French Name
serbe  
birman  

German Name
Serbisch  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Serbs  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
11th Century  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
Standard Serbian  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
44  
33
43  
32

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sr  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
srp  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
srp  
bur  

ISO 639 3
srp  
mya  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
serb1264  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-g  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Serbian and Burmese Language History

Comparison of Serbian vs Burmese language history gives us differences between origin of Serbian and Burmese language. History of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th Century whereas history of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Serbian and Burmese Language History.

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Serbian 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 Serbian and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Burmese language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Serbian vs Burmese Difficulty

The Serbian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian 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 Serbian and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.

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