Countries
Myanmar
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Malaysia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Thailand
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Thai Language
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Pali Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3324
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
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)
Hai
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
terima kasih
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Apa khabar?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Selamat pagi
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
sila
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
maaf
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Pekal
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
440,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Musi
Where They Speak
Burma
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
90,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
524
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million77.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
birman
malais
German Name
Birmanisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Malaysian people
Origin
1113 AD
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
4354
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
msa
ISO 639 2/B
bur
may
ISO 639 3
mya
zsm
ISO 639 6
mya
may
Glottocode
sout3159
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative