Countries
Myanmar
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Russia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Mon
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Thai Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3321
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Olonets
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Olonets
How Many People Speak
440,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Burma
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
90,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
513
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.50 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Русский
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Russki
French Name
birman
russe
German Name
Birmanisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Russians
Origin
1113 AD
1000 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Russian
Language Position
437
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
rus
ISO 639 2/B
bur
rus
ISO 639 3
mya
rus
ISO 639 6
mya
rus
Glottocode
sout3159
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic