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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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)

Dialects

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
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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

Japanese and Burmese Alphabets

Japanese and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Burmese. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Japanese and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Burmese languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Burmese Speaking population

Japanese and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Burmese on Japanese vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Burmese Language Codes

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