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Burmese
Burmese

Oromo
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Countries

Countries

Myanmar
Ethiopia, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Myanmar
Ethiopia

Second Language

Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Mon
Somalia

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.
  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.

Similar To

Thai Language
Somali Language

Derived From

Pali Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3334
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1210
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
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
akkam

Thank You

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Galatoomi

How Are You?

နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?

Good Night

ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Nagayattii buli

Good Evening

မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Akkam waarite

Good Afternoon

မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Attam oolte / ooltan

Good Morning

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Attam bulte/bultan

Please

ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Maaloo

Sorry

တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
naa dhiisi

Bye

နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Nagayattii!

I Love You

မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Sin jaaladha

Excuse Me

ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Maaloo na dabarsi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Arakanese
Borana

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Ethiopia, Kenya

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tavoyan
Orma

Where They Speak

Myanmar
Kenya

How Many People Speak

440,000.0066,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Intha
Wata

Where They Speak

Burma
Kenya

How Many People Speak

90,000.0013,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

517
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

43.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.50 %0.36 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

33.00 million24.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million35.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Afaan Oromo

Alternative Names

Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Afaan Oromoo

French Name

birman
galla

German Name

Birmanisch
Galla-Sprache

Pronunciation

[bəmɛ̀]
[ɔrɔmɔ]

Ethnicity

Bamar people
Oromos

History

Origin

1113 AD
16

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
Cushitic

Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Burmese
Afaan Oromo

Language Position

4391
1 120
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Signed Forms

Burmese sign language
Oromo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

my
om

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mya
orm

ISO 639 2/B

bur
orm

ISO 639 3

mya
orm

ISO 639 6

mya
orm

Glottocode

sout3159
nucl1736

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
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Burmese and Oromo Alphabets

Burmese and Oromo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and Oromo. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters. To learn Burmese and Oromo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and Oromo 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 Oromo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and Oromo are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Burmese and Oromo Speaking population

Burmese and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. 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 Oromo on Burmese vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Oromo Language Codes

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