Countries
Myanmar
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Indonesia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
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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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Thai Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3327
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Halo
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Sugeng énjing
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
matur nuwun
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
440,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Arekan
Where They Speak
Burma
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
90,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
516
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %1.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million76.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
birman
javanais
German Name
Birmanisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1113 AD
450 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Javanese
Language Position
4311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
jav
ISO 639 2/B
bur
jav
ISO 639 3
mya
jav
ISO 639 6
mya
jav
Glottocode
sout3159
java1253
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
Agglutinative