Countries
Myanmar
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Japan
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Mon
Palau
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Thai Language
Korean Language
Derived From
Pali Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3399
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3314
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Hakata
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
440,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Kansai
Where They Speak
Burma
kansai
How Many People Speak
90,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
531
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
日本語
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Nihongo
French Name
birman
japonais
German Name
Birmanisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1113 AD
1185
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Japanese
Language Position
438
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
bur
jpn
ISO 639 3
mya
jpn
ISO 639 6
mya
jpn
Glottocode
sout3159
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic