Countries
Myanmar
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Mon
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
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.
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
Similar To
Thai Language
Norwegian and Swedish
Derived From
Pali Language
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1220
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3320
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Hallo
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Mange tak
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Hvordan har du det?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
God nat
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
God aften
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
God eftermiddag
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
God morgen
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Please
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Undskyld!
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Farvel
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Jeg elsker dig
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Undskyld mig
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Scanian
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Sweden
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Jutlandic
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Denmark
How Many People Speak
440,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Bornholmsk
Where They Speak
Burma
Island of Bornholm
How Many People Speak
90,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million5.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million5.50 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
dansk
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Dansk, Rigsdansk
French Name
birman
danois
German Name
Birmanisch
Dänisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Danish people or Danes
Origin
1113 AD
c. 1100 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Rigsdansk
Language Position
4318
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Danish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
da
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
dan
ISO 639 2/B
bur
dan
ISO 639 3
mya
dan
ISO 639 6
mya
dan
Glottocode
sout3159
dani1284
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
Fusional