Countries
Myanmar
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Malta
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Mon
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Thai Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Pali Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3324
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Ħello
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Grazzi
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Kif int?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Skużani!
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Ċaw
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Qormi
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Malta
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Malta
How Many People Speak
440,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Not Present
Where They Speak
Burma
-
How Many People Speak
90,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
52
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Malti
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Malti
French Name
birman
maltais
German Name
Birmanisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Maltese
Origin
1113 AD
c. 1470
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Maltese
Language Position
4325
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
bur
mlt
ISO 639 3
mya
mlt
ISO 639 6
mya
mlt
Glottocode
sout3159
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic