Countries
Myanmar
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Thai Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3346
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Mhoro
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Masikati
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Mangwanani
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Ndineurombo
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
bye
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Karanga
Where They Speak
Myanmar
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
440,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Burma
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
90,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
birman
shona
German Name
Birmanisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Shona people
Origin
1113 AD
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Shona
Language Position
43107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
sna
ISO 639 2/B
bur
sna
ISO 639 3
mya
sna
ISO 639 6
mya
sna
Glottocode
sout3159
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
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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