Countries
Myanmar
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
India, Pakistan, Sindh
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
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.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Thai Language
Gujarati
Derived From
Pali Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3364
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3342
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Arabic, Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Meharbani
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Subho Bakhair
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Mehrbani
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Allah Wahi
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Siraiki
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Vicholi
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
440,000.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Lari
Where They Speak
Burma
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
90,000.0025.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million29.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Sindhi
French Name
birman
sindhi
German Name
Birmanisch
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Sindhi people
Origin
1113 AD
711 A.D
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Sindhi
Language Position
4350
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Sindhi
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
snd
ISO 639 2/B
bur
snd
ISO 639 3
mya
snd
ISO 639 6
mya
snd
Glottocode
sout3159
sind1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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