Countries
Myanmar
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Thai Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3330
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
440,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burma
China
How Many People Speak
90,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
birman
tibétain
German Name
Birmanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
tibetan people
Origin
1113 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
my
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
bod
ISO 639 2/B
bur
tib
ISO 639 3
mya
bod
ISO 639 6
mya
bod
Glottocode
sout3159
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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