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Burmese
Burmese

Santali
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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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

Dialects

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

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

History

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

Code

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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Burmese and Santali Alphabets

Burmese and Santali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and Santali. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Santali Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Burmese and Santali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and Santali 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 Santali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and Santali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Burmese and Santali Speaking population

Burmese and Santali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Santali languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Santali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Santali language is 0.02 %. 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 Santali on Burmese vs Santali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Santali Language Codes

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