Countries
Myanmar
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
South Africa
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Thai Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3357
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3350
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Sawubona
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
unjani
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
bye
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
440,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Burma
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
90,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million12.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
birman
zoulou
German Name
Birmanisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Zulu people
Origin
1113 AD
19
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Deep Zulu
Language Position
4387
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
zul
ISO 639 2/B
bur
zul
ISO 639 3
mya
zul
ISO 639 6
mya
zul
Glottocode
sout3159
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
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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