Countries
Myanmar
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Thai Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1213
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
440,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Burma
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
90,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
58
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
birman
mongol
German Name
Birmanisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Mongols
Origin
1113 AD
1224-1225
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Mongolian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
4326
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
my
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
mon
ISO 639 2/B
bur
mon
ISO 639 3
mya
mon
ISO 639 6
mya
mon
Glottocode
sout3159
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
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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