Countries
Myanmar
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Mon
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
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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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Thai Language
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3332
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
sannu
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
gode ku
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
yaya dai
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
barka da rana
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
mai kyau safe
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Don Allah
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
yi hakuri
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
sai anjima
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Ghana
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Niger
How Many People Speak
440,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Daragaram
Where They Speak
Burma
Niger
How Many People Speak
90,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
520
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
birman
haoussa
German Name
Birmanisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
1113 AD
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Chadic
Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Hausa
Language Position
4334
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
hau
ISO 639 2/B
bur
hau
ISO 639 3
mya
hau
ISO 639 6
mya
hau
Glottocode
sout3159
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional