Countries
Myanmar
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Thai Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3329
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Silaw
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Sipas
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Bayanit bash
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Bê zehmet
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bibûre
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
440,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Burma
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
90,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
birman
kurde
German Name
Birmanisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Kurds
Origin
1113 AD
16th century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Kurdish
Language Position
4314
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
my
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
kur
ISO 639 2/B
bur
kur
ISO 639 3
mya
kur
ISO 639 6
mya
kur
Glottocode
sout3159
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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