Countries
Myanmar
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Thai Language
Munda Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Henda ho
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
संध्यायान
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Boge Setak’
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
দয়া করে
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
দুঃখিত
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Hariau
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Mahali
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
India
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Not present
Where They Speak
Myanmar
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How Many People Speak
440,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Not present
Where They Speak
Burma
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How Many People Speak
90,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
birman
santal
German Name
Birmanisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1113 AD
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Santali
Language Position
4341
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
sat
ISO 639 2/B
bur
sat
ISO 639 3
mya
sat
ISO 639 6
mya
sat
Glottocode
sout3159
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
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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