Countries
Myanmar
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Thai Language
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3321
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3319
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Bwakeye
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Urakoze
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Mwaramutse
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Ndasubiza
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
N’agasaga
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Ha
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
440,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Shubi
Where They Speak
Burma
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
90,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
birman
rundi
German Name
Birmanisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
1113 AD
1500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Kirundi
Language Position
4386
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
my
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
run
ISO 639 2/B
bur
run
ISO 639 3
mya
run
ISO 639 6
mya
run
Glottocode
sout3159
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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