Countries
Myanmar
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Sweden
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Finland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Mon
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Thai Language
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
Pali Language
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3318
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
hej
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
tacka dig
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
hur mår du
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
godnatt
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
god kväll
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
god morgon
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
vänligen
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
ledsen
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
hej då
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Dialects
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Gabon
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Dialects
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Georgia
How Many People Speak
440,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Dialects
Where They Speak
Burma
France
How Many People Speak
90,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
579
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million8.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Svenska
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
birman
suédois
German Name
Birmanisch
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
1113 AD
13th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Swedish
Language Position
4389
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
sv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
swe
ISO 639 2/B
bur
swe
ISO 639 3
mya
swe
ISO 639 6
mya
swe
Glottocode
sout3159
swed1254
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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