Countries
Myanmar
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Mon
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Thai Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3313
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Moi
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Kiitos
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
haluta
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Anteeksi
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Heippa
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Finland
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Rauma
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
440,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Burma
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
90,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
521
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million5.40 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Suomi
French Name
birman
finnois
German Name
Birmanisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
ethnic Finns
Origin
1113 AD
1543
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
standard Finnish
Language Position
4322
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
fin
ISO 639 2/B
bur
fin
ISO 639 3
mya
fin
ISO 639 6
mya
fin
Glottocode
sout3159
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic