Countries
Myanmar
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Thai Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Pali Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1220
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3333
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Khmer
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)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
សូម
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
សូរី
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
440,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Burma
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
90,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
birman
khmer central
German Name
Birmanisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1113 AD
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Modern Khmer
Language Position
431
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
khm
ISO 639 2/B
bur
khm
ISO 639 3
mya
khm
ISO 639 6
mya
khm
Glottocode
sout3159
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating