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Georgian vs Burmese


Burmese vs Georgian


Countries

Countries
Georgia  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
1  
14

National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America  
Myanmar  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Bangladesh, Burma  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Mon  

Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia  
Myanmar Language Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
  • Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
  • 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
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages  
Thai Language  

Derived From
Anatolian Languages  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33  
15
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
28  
18
33  
23

Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script  
Tangut  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
80,000.00  
99+
2,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Kartlian  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
Kartli  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
99+
440,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Pshavian  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Pshavi  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
40
90,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
20  
18
5  
5

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.64 %  
26
0.50 %  
31

Native Speakers
4.30 million  
99+
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
4.00 million  
99+
10.00 million  
99+

Native Name
ქართული ენა  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  

French Name
géorgien  
birman  

German Name
Georgisch  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]  
[bəmɛ̀]  

Ethnicity
Georgians  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
5th Century  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Kartvelian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Southern  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
Modern Georgian  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
120  
99+
43  
40

Signed Forms
Georgian Sign Language  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ka  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kat  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
geo  
bur  

ISO 639 3
kat  
mya  

ISO 639 6
kat  
mya  

Glottocode
nucl1302  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Georgian and Burmese Language History

Comparison of Georgian vs Burmese language history gives us differences between origin of Georgian and Burmese language. History of Georgian language states that this language originated in 5th Century whereas history of Burmese language states that this language originated in 1113 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Georgian and Burmese Language History.

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Georgian 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 Georgian and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Georgian and Burmese language. Georgian word for "Hello" is გამარჯობა (gamarjoba) or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Georgian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Georgian vs Burmese Difficulty

The Georgian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Georgian 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 Georgian and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Georgian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Georgian is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.

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