Countries
Estonia, European Union
Myanmar
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Mon
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- 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.
Similar To
Finnish
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Tere
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
aitäh
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Head ööd
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Palun
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Vabandust
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Head aega
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Myanmar
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Burma
Native Name
eesti keel
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
estonien
birman
German Name
Estnisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Bamar people
Origin
13th century
1113 AD
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Estonian
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
esto1258
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Estonian and Burmese 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 Estonian and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Burmese language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Burmese Difficulty
The Estonian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Burmese 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 Estonian and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.