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Bengali

Burmese
Burmese



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Countries

Countries

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Myanmar

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Myanmar

Second Language

India
Bangladesh, Burma

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
Mon

Regulated By

Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Myanmar Language Commission

Interesting Facts

  • Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
  • 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
  • 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

Assamese and Oriya
Thai Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Pali Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5133
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1112
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4033
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Tangut

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

23
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

হ্যালো (Hyālō)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Thank You

ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

How Are You?

কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

Good Night

শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Evening

শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Afternoon

ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Morning

সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Please

অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Sorry

দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Bye

বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

I Love You

আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

Excuse Me

মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakma
Arakanese

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, Burma, India
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

How Many People Speak

330,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hajong
Tavoyan

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India
Myanmar

How Many People Speak

71,000.00440,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Rarhi
Intha

Where They Speak

India
Burma

How Many People Speak

230,000,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

255
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

215.00 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

3.11 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

196.00 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

19.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

Alternative Names

Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

French Name

bengali
birman

German Name

Bengali
Birmanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈbeŋɡali]
[bəmɛ̀]

Ethnicity

Bengalis (Bengali people)
Bamar people

History

Origin

1000–1200 CE
1113 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Abahatta, Old Bengali
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Standard Forms

Bengali
Modern Burmese

Language Position

443
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Bengali
Burmese sign language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

bn
my

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ben
mya

ISO 639 2/B

ben
bur

ISO 639 3

ben
mya

ISO 639 6

ben
mya

Glottocode

beng1280
sout3159

Linguasphere

59-AAF-u
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Analytic, Isolating

Bengali and Burmese Alphabets

Bengali and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Bengali and Burmese. In Bengali Alphabets there are 51 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Bengali and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Bengali and Burmese languages. The Bengali phonology consist Bengali vowels and Bengali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Bengali greetings vs Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Bengali and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Bengali 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 Bengali and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Bengali and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bengali are spoken in different Bengali Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bengali vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bengali dialects include: Chakma, Hajong. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Bengali and Burmese Speaking population

Bengali and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bengali and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Bengali and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bengali language is 3.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Bengali and Burmese on Bengali vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bengali and Burmese Language Codes

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