Countries
Myanmar
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
India, Nepal
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Thai Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3347
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3322
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Devanagari
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
pranam
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Suprabhaat
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
kripaya
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
maf karai
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Alavidā
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Myanmar
North India
How Many People Speak
440,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Khortha
Where They Speak
Burma
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
90,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
515
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
birman
maithili
German Name
Birmanisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Maithil
Origin
1113 AD
14th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Maithili
Language Position
4340
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
mai
ISO 639 2/B
bur
mai
ISO 639 3
mya
mai
ISO 639 6
mya
mai
Glottocode
sout3159
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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