Countries
Myanmar
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Abkhazia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Thai Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Pali Language
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3362
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
122
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3360
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
амритана
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Амарахь
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
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Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
440,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Sadz
Where They Speak
Burma
Turkey
How Many People Speak
90,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million0.13 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
birman
abkhaze
German Name
Birmanisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Abkhaz people
Origin
1113 AD
c. 1650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Abkhaz
Language Position
4328
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
abk
ISO 639 2/B
bur
abk
ISO 639 3
mya
abk
ISO 639 6
mya
abks
Glottocode
sout3159
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative