Countries
South Africa
Myanmar
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
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Intha
Where They Speak
Namibia
Burma
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Bamar people
Origin
17th Century
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Modern Burmese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
sout3159
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Analytic, Isolating
Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Burmese language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Burmese Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.