Countries
Myanmar
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Olonets
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Burma
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Русский
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Russki
German Name
Birmanisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Russians
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sout3159
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Burmese and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Burmese and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Russian language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Russian Difficulty
The Burmese vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Burmese and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.