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Burmese
Burmese

Akan
Akan



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Countries

Countries

Myanmar
Ghana, Ivory coast

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Myanmar
Ghana

Second Language

Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Mon
Benin, United States of America

Regulated By

Myanmar Language Commission
Akan Orthography Committee

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.
  • Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
  • Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.

Similar To

Thai Language
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages

Derived From

Pali Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3321
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1210
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3316
9 60
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Scripts

Tangut
Latin

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

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
ete-sen

Thank You

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
meda ase

How Are You?

နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
wo ho te sɛn?

Good Night

ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
maadwo

Good Evening

မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
maadwo

Good Afternoon

မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
maaha

Good Morning

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
maakye

Please

ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
wae

Sorry

တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Kafra

Bye

နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
bye

I Love You

မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Me doכ wo

Excuse Me

ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
mepa wo kyɛw

Dialects

Dialect 1

Arakanese
Asante

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Ghana

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tavoyan
Akuapem

Where They Speak

Myanmar
Ghana

How Many People Speak

440,000.009,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Intha
Fante

Where They Speak

Burma
Ghana

How Many People Speak

90,000.001,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

53
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

43.00 million11.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.50 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

33.00 million11.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Akan

Alternative Names

Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Twi, Fante

French Name

birman
akan

German Name

Birmanisch
Akan-Sprache

Pronunciation

[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈaːkã]

Ethnicity

Bamar people
Akan people

History

Origin

1113 AD
15

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Burmese
Akan

Language Position

43104
1 120
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Signed Forms

Burmese sign language
Akan Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

my
ak

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mya
aka

ISO 639 2/B

bur
aka

ISO 639 3

mya
aka

ISO 639 6

mya
aka

Glottocode

sout3159
akan1251

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
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Burmese and Akan Alphabets

Burmese and Akan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and Akan. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Akan Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Burmese and Akan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and Akan languages. The Burmese phonology consist Burmese vowels and Burmese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Burmese greetings vs Akan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and Akan are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Burmese and Akan Speaking population

Burmese and Akan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Akan languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Akan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 %. 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 Burmese and Akan on Burmese vs Akan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Akan Language Codes

Burmese and Akan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Burmese and Akan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.