Countries
Myanmar
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Thai Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3323
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3314
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Kumno
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Khublei
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
thia sukh
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
khublei
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sngewbha
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Map
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
khublei
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
map a nga
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
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How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Myanmar
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How Many People Speak
440,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Burma
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How Many People Speak
90,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
55
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million0.84 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
birman
khasi
German Name
Birmanisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Khasi people
Origin
1113 AD
1200 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Khasi
Language Position
4340
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
kha
ISO 639 2/B
bur
kha
ISO 639 3
mya
kha
ISO 639 6
mya
kha
Glottocode
sout3159
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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