Burmese is natively spoken by about 33 million people, primarily in Myanmar. It is the official language and a crucial part of Burmese cultural identity, reflected in its literature, traditional theater, and Buddhist practices. Written in the Burmese script, the language has a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, uses particles to indicate grammatical relationships, and features a tonal system, where pitch changes affect the meaning of words.
Statistici
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan
Writing System: Burmese
Writing System Type: Abugida
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: 4
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 9
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0
Number of Verb Tenses: 0
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 11
Number of Consonants: 33
Zone unde e vorbită
Myanmar (official) (61.0%) (33.0 mil)
Resurse
Websites
Burmese By Ear - Introductory audio course
Script, Beginning, & Intermediate Burmese Lessons - Lessons with audio and grammar
Myanmar-Dictionary.org - Dictionary
Padauk - Font to render Burmese script (restart browser once installed to render)
TV
Radio | Mandalay FM (local pop, talk, window mid-page)