Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
Myanmar
Second Language
Indonesia
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Mon
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Tamil Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2433
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
terima kasih
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
sila
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
maaf
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
30,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Intha
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Burma
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
245
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million33.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
98.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
malais
birman
German Name
Malaiisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Bamar people
Origin
c. 683 AD
1113 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Burmese
Language Position
5443
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ms
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
mya
ISO 639 2/B
may
bur
ISO 639 3
zsm
mya
ISO 639 6
may
mya
Glottocode
stan1306
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating