Countries
Myanmar
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Hawaii
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Thai Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3328
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
您好
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
谢谢
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
你好吗？
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
晚安
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
下午好
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
早上好
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
请
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
遗憾
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
再见
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
我爱你
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
440,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Burma
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
90,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
birman
cantonais
German Name
Birmanisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Han Chinese
Origin
1113 AD
17th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
my
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
yue
ISO 639 2/B
bur
yue
ISO 639 3
mya
No data available
ISO 639 6
mya
yue
Glottocode
sout3159
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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