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German and Burmese


Burmese and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Myanmar  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Myanmar  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Bangladesh, Burma  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Mon  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Myanmar Language Commission  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Thai Language  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Pali Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
12  
9

How Many Consonants
9  
1
33  
23

Scripts
Latin  
Tangut  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
10
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)  

Thank You
Danke  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)  

Please
bitte  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)  

Bye
Tschüs  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Arakanese  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
99+
2,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Tavoyan  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Myanmar  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
99+
440,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Intha  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Burma  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
99+
90,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
43.00 million  
30

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
13
0.50 %  
31

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
33.00 million  
28

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
10.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Deutsch  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa  

French Name
allemand  
birman  

German Name
Deutsch  
Birmanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[bəmɛ̀]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Bamar people  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
1113 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Western  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Modern Burmese  

Language Position
9  
9
43  
40

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Burmese sign language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
my  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
mya  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
bur  

ISO 639 3
deu  
mya  

ISO 639 6
deus  
mya  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
sout3159  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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All German 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 German and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of German and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Burmese Speaking population

German and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of German and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Burmese on German vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Burmese Language Codes

German and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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