Countries
India, Nepal
Myanmar
National Language
Nepal
Myanmar
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Mon
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- 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
Hindi
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
कृपया
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Doteli
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Nepal
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Intha
Where They Speak
Nepal
Burma
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
népalais
birman
German Name
Nepali
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Bamar people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
sout3159
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Nepali 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 Nepali and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Burmese language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Burmese Difficulty
The Nepali vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.