Countries
Myanmar
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
India
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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Thai Language
Kannada Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3351
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1216
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3335
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Kannada Script
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)
Namaskara
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
yedde kaande
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Daya maltadu
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Barpe
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Jain
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
440,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Girijan
Where They Speak
Burma
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
90,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
birman
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German Name
Birmanisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Tuluva
Origin
1113 AD
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian 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
Tulu
Language Position
4323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
bur
tul
ISO 639 3
mya
tcy
ISO 639 6
mya
tcy
Glottocode
sout3159
tulu1258
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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