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Burmese

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Countries

Countries

Myanmar
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian

Total No. Of Countries

15
0 46
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National Language

Myanmar
North Korea, South Korea

Second Language

Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Mon
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America

Regulated By

Myanmar Language Commission
The National Institute of the Korean Language

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.
  • Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
  • Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.

Similar To

Thai Language
Chinese and Japanese languages

Derived From

Pali Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3340
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1221
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3319
9 60
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Scripts

Tangut
Hangul

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)

Thank You

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)

How Are You?

နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)

Good Night

ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)

Good Evening

မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)

Good Afternoon

မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)

Good Morning

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)

Please

ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
하십시오 (hasibsio)

Sorry

တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)

Bye

နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
안녕 (annyeong)

I Love You

မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)

Excuse Me

ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Arakanese
Jeju

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
South Korea

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0010,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tavoyan
Gyeongsang

Where They Speak

Myanmar
South Korea

How Many People Speak

440,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Intha
Hamgyŏng

Where They Speak

Burma
China, North Korea

How Many People Speak

90,000.0077,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

512
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

43.00 million77.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.50 %1.14 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

33.00 million77.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million77.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
한국어 (조선말)

Alternative Names

Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh

French Name

birman
coréen

German Name

Birmanisch
Koreanisch

Pronunciation

[bəmɛ̀]
[hangukmal]

Ethnicity

Bamar people
Koreans

History

Origin

1113 AD
Before 1st century

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Koreanic Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean

Standard Forms

Modern Burmese
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard

Language Position

4312
1 120
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Signed Forms

Burmese sign language
Korean Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

my
ko

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mya
kor

ISO 639 2/B

bur
kor

ISO 639 3

mya
Kor

ISO 639 6

mya
kor

Glottocode

sout3159
kore1280

Linguasphere

No data available
45-AAA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative

Burmese and Korean Alphabets

Burmese and Korean Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and Korean. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Korean Alphabets there are 40 letters. To learn Burmese and Korean languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and Korean 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 Korean greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and Korean are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Burmese and Korean Speaking population

Burmese and Korean speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Korean languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Korean Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Korean language is 1.14 %. 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 Korean on Burmese vs Korean where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Korean Language Codes

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