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Russian vs Burmese


Countries

Countries
Myanmar  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
4  
11

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

Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
33  
15
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
10  
7

How Many Consonants
33  
23
21  
11

Scripts
Tangut  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Arakanese  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00  
99+
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Tavoyan  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Myanmar  
Olonets  

How Many People Speak
440,000.00  
99+
154,000,000.00  
2

Dialect 3
Intha  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Burma  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
90,000.00  
99+
154,000,000.00  
2

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
43.00 million  
30
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
0.50 %  
31
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
33.00 million  
28
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
10.00 million  
99+
110.00 million  
7

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  

History

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
43  
40
7  
7

Signed Forms
Burmese sign language  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  

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Burmese and Russian Language History

Comparison of Burmese vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Burmese and Russian language. History of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Burmese and Russian Language History.

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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.

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