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Burmese
Burmese

Amharic
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Countries

Countries

Myanmar
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Myanmar
Ethiopia

Second Language

Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

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.
  • Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
  • Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.

Similar To

Thai Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages

Derived From

Pali Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3333
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

127
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3331
9 60
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Scripts

Tangut
Ethiopic

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)
Selam

Thank You

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
amesege'nallo'

How Are You?

နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Dehina newot?

Good Night

ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Dehna dur

Good Evening

မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
melkam meshe't

Good Afternoon

မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
i'ndemin walu

Good Morning

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
i'ndemin adäru

Please

ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
i'bakwon

Sorry

တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
aznallehu

Bye

နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
tschao

I Love You

မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
afekirishalehu

Excuse Me

ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
yiqirta

Dialects

Dialect 1

Arakanese
Gondar

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Gondar

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tavoyan
Gojjami

Where They Speak

Myanmar
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

440,000.0022,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Intha
Showa

Where They Speak

Burma
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

90,000.0022,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

55
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

43.00 million18.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.50 %0.37 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

33.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
አማርኛ

Alternative Names

Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian

French Name

birman
amharique

German Name

Birmanisch
Amharisch

Pronunciation

[bəmɛ̀]
[amarɨɲɲa]

Ethnicity

Bamar people
Amharas

History

Origin

1113 AD
13th century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
Semitic

Branch

-
Ethiopic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Ge'ez

Standard Forms

Modern Burmese
Amharic

Language Position

4355
1 120
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Signed Forms

Burmese sign language
Signed Amharic

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

my
am

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mya
amh

ISO 639 2/B

bur
amh

ISO 639 3

mya
amh

ISO 639 6

mya
amh

Glottocode

sout3159
amha1245

Linguasphere

No data available
12-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional

Burmese and Amharic Alphabets

Burmese and Amharic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and Amharic. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Burmese and Amharic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and Amharic 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 Amharic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and Amharic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Burmese and Amharic Speaking population

Burmese and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. 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 Amharic on Burmese vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Amharic Language Codes

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