Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Myanmar
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
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Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Myanmar
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Burma
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
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
stan1306
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Burmese language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Burmese Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.