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Name:
Burmese
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Bama; Bamachaka; Myen; Myanmar; Bāmā(-čaka)
Spoken in:
Malaysia, USA, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Thailand
Number of speakers:
32,000,000 in Myanmar (2000 D. Bradley). Population total all countries: 32,319,700
(Ethnologue)
Code:
mya
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Language:
Old Burmese (obr)
Child Dialects:
Palaw (mya-pal)
Merguese; Mergui; Beik; Meguese (mya-mer)
Yaw (mya-yaw)
Bomang (mya-bom)
Burmese; Burmans; Standard Burmese (mya-bur)
Map of Burmese
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