Countries
Myanmar
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Mon
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Thai Language
German and English Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Hallo
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
dankjewel
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
goedemorgen
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
alsjeblieft
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
sorry
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
vaarwel
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
pardon
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Gronings
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
440,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Burma
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
90,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
57
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million22.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
birman
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Birmanisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Dutch people
Origin
1113 AD
AD 450-500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Dutch
Language Position
4348
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
nld
ISO 639 2/B
bur
dut
ISO 639 3
mya
nld
ISO 639 6
mya
nld
Glottocode
sout3159
mode1257
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic