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 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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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
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?
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
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
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