Countries
Myanmar
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Thai Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Habari
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Asante
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
tafadhali
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
pole
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
bye
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
440,000.0075,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Burma
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
90,000.0075,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
512
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million150.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million75.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
birman
swahili
German Name
Birmanisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
1113 AD
6th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Swahili
Language Position
4321
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
my
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
swa
ISO 639 2/B
bur
swa
ISO 639 3
mya
swa
ISO 639 6
mya
swa
Glottocode
sout3159
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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