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Oromo
Oromo

Burmese
Burmese



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Countries

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya
Myanmar

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Myanmar

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Somalia
Mon

Regulated By

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Myanmar Language Commission

Interesting Facts

  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  • 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

Somali Language
Thai Language

Derived From

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Pali Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3433
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1012
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2433
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Tangut

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

akkam
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Thank You

Galatoomi
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

How Are You?

Attam jirta/jirtu?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

Good Night

Nagayattii buli
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Evening

Akkam waarite
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Afternoon

Attam oolte / ooltan
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Morning

Attam bulte/bultan
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Please

Maaloo
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Sorry

naa dhiisi
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Bye

Nagayattii!
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

I Love You

Sin jaaladha
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

Excuse Me

Maaloo na dabarsi
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Borana
Arakanese

Where They Speak

Ethiopia, Kenya
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Orma
Tavoyan

Where They Speak

Kenya
Myanmar

How Many People Speak

66,000.00440,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Wata
Intha

Where They Speak

Kenya
Burma

How Many People Speak

13,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

175
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.36 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

24.00 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

35.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afaan Oromo
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

Alternative Names

Afaan Oromoo
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

French Name

galla
birman

German Name

Galla-Sprache
Birmanisch

Pronunciation

[ɔrɔmɔ]
[bəmɛ̀]

Ethnicity

Oromos
Bamar people

History

Origin

16
1113 AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Cushitic
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Standard Forms

Afaan Oromo
Modern Burmese

Language Position

9143
1 120
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Signed Forms

Oromo Sign Language
Burmese sign language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

om
my

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

orm
mya

ISO 639 2/B

orm
bur

ISO 639 3

orm
mya

ISO 639 6

orm
mya

Glottocode

nucl1736
sout3159

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Isolating

Oromo and Burmese Alphabets

Oromo and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Oromo and Burmese. In Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Oromo and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Oromo and Burmese languages. The Oromo phonology consist Oromo vowels and Oromo consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Oromo greetings vs Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Oromo and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Oromo and Burmese Speaking population

Oromo and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oromo and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Oromo and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 % 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 Oromo and Burmese on Oromo vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Oromo and Burmese Language Codes

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