26 Facts About Burmese language

Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is an official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Burmans, the country's principal ethnic group.

Burmese language is spoken by the indigenous tribes in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, Tripura state in Northeast India.

The Burmese language alphabet is ultimately descended from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabets.

Burmese belongs to the Southern Burmish branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, of which Burmese is the most widely spoken of the non-Sinitic languages.

However, several Burmese language dialects differ substantially from standard Burmese language with respect to vocabulary, lexical particles, and rhymes.

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The earliest evidence of the Burmese language alphabet is dated to 1035, while a casting made in the 18th century of an old stone inscription points to 984.

Lower Burma's shift from Mon to Burmese language was accelerated by the Burmese language-speaking Konbaung Dynasty's victory over the Mon-speaking Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom in 1757.

The language shift has been ascribed to a combination of population displacement, intermarriage, and voluntary changes in self-identification among increasingly Mon–Burmese bilingual populations in the region.

British rule in Burma eroded the strategic and economic importance of the Burmese language; Burmese was effectively subordinated to the English language in the colonial educational system, especially in higher education.

Literary form of Burmese language retains archaic and conservative grammatical structures and modifiers no longer used in the colloquial form.

Literary Burmese language, which has not changed significantly since the 13th century, is the register of Burmese language taught in schools.

Burmese language has politeness levels and honorifics that take the speaker's status and age in relation to the audience into account.

Burmese language has adapted numerous words from Mon, traditionally spoken by the Mon people, who until recently formed the majority in Lower Burma.

Since the end of British rule, the Burmese language government has attempted to limit usage of Western loans by coining new words .

Syllable structure of Burmese language is CV, which is to say the onset consists of a consonant optionally followed by a glide, and the rime consists of a monophthong alone, a monophthong with a consonant, or a diphthong with a consonant.

Pronouns in Burmese language vary according to the gender and status of the audience, although oftentimes pronouns are often omitted.

Burmese language is an agglutinative with an extensive case system and nouns are suffixed to determine their syntactic function in a sentence or clause.

Roots of Burmese language verbs are almost always have suffixes which convey information like tense, aspect, intention, politeness, mood, etc.

Burmese language makes prominent usage of affixes, which are untranslatable words that are suffixed or prefixed to words to indicate tense, aspect, case, formality etc.

Reduplication is prevalent in Burmese language and is used to intensify or weaken adjectives' meanings.

Burmese language digits are traditionally written using a set of numerals unique to the Mon–Burmese language script, although Arabic numerals are used in informal contexts.

The cardinal forms of Burmese numerals are primarily inherited from the Proto-Sino-Tibetan language, with cognates with modern-day Sino-Tibetan languages, including the Chinese and Tibetan.

Burmese language numerals follow the nouns they modify, with the exception of round numbers, which precede the nouns they modify.

However, it only transcribes sounds in formal Burmese language and is based on the Burmese language alphabet rather than the phonology.

Transcription of Burmese language is not standardized, as seen in the varying English transcriptions of Burmese language names.

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Burmese language has complex character rendering requirements, where tone markings and vowel modifications are noted using diacritics.