Countries
South Africa
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Myanmar
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Mon
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Dutch Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1733
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Dankie
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
goeie nag
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
goeie more
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
asseblief
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
jammer
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Totsiens
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Arakanese
Where They Speak
-
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
-
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
7,700,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Intha
Where They Speak
Namibia
Burma
How Many People Speak
7.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.10 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afrikaans
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
afrikaans
birman
German Name
Afrikaans
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Bamar people
Origin
17th Century
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Burmese
Language Position
2343
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
af
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
afr
mya
ISO 639 2/B
afr
bur
ISO 639 3
afr
mya
ISO 639 6
afrs
mya
Glottocode
afri1274
sout3159
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Analytic, Isolating