Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Myanmar
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 in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Germany
Myanmar
Dialect 3
Texas German
Intha
Where They Speak
Texas
Burma
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]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Germans
Bamar people
Origin
6th Century AD
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Signed German
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sout3159
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
German 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 German and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Burmese language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common German Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Burmese Difficulty
The German vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.