Countries
Myanmar
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Germany
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Mon
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Thai Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
339
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
hallo
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Danke
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
guten Tag
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
guten Morgen
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
bitte
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Verzeihung
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Tschüs
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Germany
How Many People Speak
440,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Texas German
Where They Speak
Burma
Texas
How Many People Speak
90,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
528
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %1.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million101.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
birman
allemand
German Name
Birmanisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Germans
Origin
1113 AD
6th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
439
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
deu
ISO 639 2/B
bur
ger
ISO 639 3
mya
deu
ISO 639 6
mya
deus
Glottocode
sout3159
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic