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Countries

Countries

Myanmar
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Myanmar
Japan

Second Language

Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Mon
Palau

Regulated By

Myanmar Language Commission
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Thai Language
Korean Language

Derived From

Pali Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3399
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3314
9 60
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Scripts

Tangut
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Arakanese
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tavoyan
Hakata

Where They Speak

Myanmar
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

440,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Intha
Kansai

Where They Speak

Burma
kansai

How Many People Speak

90,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

531
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

43.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.50 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

33.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
日本語

Alternative Names

Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Nihongo

French Name

birman
japonais

German Name

Birmanisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[bəmɛ̀]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Bamar people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1113 AD
1185

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Modern Burmese
Japanese

Language Position

438
1 120
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Signed Forms

Burmese sign language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

my
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mya
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

bur
jpn

ISO 639 3

mya
jpn

ISO 639 6

mya
jpn

Glottocode

sout3159
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Burmese and Japanese Alphabets

Burmese and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and Japanese. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Burmese and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Burmese and Japanese Speaking population

Burmese and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Burmese vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Japanese Language Codes

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