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Burmese

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Countries

Countries

Myanmar
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Myanmar
Nigeria

Second Language

Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Mon
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Myanmar Language Commission
Yoruba Academy

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.
  • One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
  • In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.

Similar To

Thai Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

Pali Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3329
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1212
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3317
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
e dupe

How Are You?

နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
e kaasan

Good Morning

မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
e kaaro

Please

ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Jowo

Sorry

တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
binu

Bye

နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
bye

I Love You

မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Arakanese
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Tavoyan
Ede

Where They Speak

Myanmar
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

440,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Intha
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

Burma
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

90,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

520
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

43.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.50 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

33.00 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

birman
yoruba

German Name

Birmanisch
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[bəmɛ̀]
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Bamar people
Yoruba people

History

Origin

1113 AD
4 BC

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic

Branch

-
Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Burmese
Yorùbá

Language Position

4349
1 120
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Signed Forms

Burmese sign language
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

my
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mya
yor

ISO 639 2/B

bur
yor

ISO 639 3

mya
yor

ISO 639 6

mya
yor

Glottocode

sout3159
yoru1245

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating

Burmese and Yoruba Alphabets

Burmese and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Burmese and Yoruba. In Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Burmese and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Burmese and Yoruba 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 Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Burmese and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Burmese and Yoruba Speaking population

Burmese and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Burmese vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Burmese and Yoruba Language Codes

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