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Finnish and Burmese


Burmese and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Myanmar  

Second Language
Estonia  
Bangladesh, Burma  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Mon  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Myanmar Language Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
  • 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Thai Language  

Derived From
-  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
12  
9

How Many Consonants
13  
3
33  
23

Scripts
Latin  
Tangut  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
Kiitos  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
haluta  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
Heippa  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
2,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
440,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
90,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
43.00 million  
30

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.50 %  
31

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
10.00 million  
99+

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  

French Name
finnois  
birman  

German Name
Finnisch  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[bəmɛ̀]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
1543  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
22  
20
43  
40

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
bur  

ISO 639 3
fin  
mya  

ISO 639 6
fin  
mya  

Glottocode
finn1318  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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All Finnish and Burmese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Burmese Speaking population

Finnish and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Burmese on Finnish vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Burmese Language Codes

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