Countries
Myanmar
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Thai Language
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Pali Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1211
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3341
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
nomoskaar
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
subha abeli
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
suprobhaat
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
anugroha kori
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
biḍai
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
440,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Burma
Assam
How Many People Speak
90,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
birman
assamais
German Name
Birmanisch
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Assamese people
Origin
1113 AD
7th century A.D
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Assamese
Language Position
4365
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
asm
ISO 639 2/B
bur
asm
ISO 639 3
mya
asm
ISO 639 6
mya
asm
Glottocode
sout3159
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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