Countries
Myanmar
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Thai Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1224
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3323
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
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Wu
Where They Speak
Myanmar
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
440,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Yue
Where They Speak
Burma
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
90,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
510
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
birman
chinois
German Name
Birmanisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Han
Origin
1113 AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Chinese
Language Position
431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
zho
ISO 639 2/B
bur
chi
ISO 639 3
mya
zho
ISO 639 6
mya
zho
Glottocode
sout3159
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating