Countries
Japan
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Mon
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1433
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Intha
Where They Speak
kansai
Burma
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
japonais
birman
German Name
Japanisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Bamar people
Origin
1185
1113 AD
Language Family
Japonic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Japanese
Modern Burmese
Language Position
843
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
mya
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
bur
ISO 639 3
jpn
mya
ISO 639 6
jpn
mya
Glottocode
nucl1643
sout3159
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating