Burmese

English

Burmese and English

Burmese

English

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Countries

Myanmar

Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133

0 46

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National Language

Myanmar

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Bangladesh, Burma

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Mon

South Africa

Regulated By

Myanmar Language Commission

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.

Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Thai Language

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Pali Language

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3326

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Hello

Thank You

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

Thank you

How Are You?

နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

How are you?

Good Night

ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Night

Good Evening

မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Evening

Good Afternoon

မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Afternoon

Good Morning

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Good Morning

Please

ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Please

Sorry

တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Sorry

Bye

နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

Bye

I Love You

မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

I love you

Excuse Me

ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Arakanese

American English

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

United States of America

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00225,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Tavoyan

Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Myanmar

Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

440,000.004,500,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Intha

Welsh English

Where They Speak

Burma

United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

90,000.002,500,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

5188

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

43.00 million1,200.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.50 %5.43 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

33.00 million400.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million400.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

English

Alternative Names

Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

English

French Name

birman

anglais

German Name

Birmanisch

Englisch

Pronunciation

[bəmɛ̀]

/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Bamar people

English people

History

Origin

1113 AD

5th Century AD

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Modern Burmese

Standard English

Language Position

433

1 120

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Signed Forms

Burmese sign language

Signed English

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mya

eng

ISO 639 2/B

bur

eng

ISO 639 3

mya

eng

ISO 639 6

mya

engs

Glottocode

sout3159

stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available

52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Burmese and English Alphabets

Burmese and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and English. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Burmese and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

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Burmese and English Speaking population

Burmese and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and English languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Burmese vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and English Language Codes

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