Countries
India
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
-
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2133
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Adi Johar
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
দয়া করে
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
দুঃখিত
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Hariau
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Mahali
Arakanese
Where They Speak
India
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
-
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Intha
Where They Speak
-
Burma
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
15
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
6.30 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
6.30 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
santal
birman
German Name
Santali
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Bamar people
Origin
20th century
1113 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Santali
Modern Burmese
Language Position
4143
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
mya
ISO 639 2/B
sat
bur
ISO 639 3
sat
mya
ISO 639 6
sat
mya
Glottocode
sant1410
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating