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 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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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
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?
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
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
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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