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A map of languages used in Burma There are approximately a hundred languages spoken in Myanmar (also known as Burma). [ 1 ] Burmese , spoken by two-thirds of the population, is the official language .
The most widely spoken Tibeto-Burman language is Burmese, the national language of Myanmar, with over 32 million speakers and a literary tradition dating from the early 12th century. It is one of the Lolo-Burmese languages , an intensively studied and well-defined group comprising approximately 100 languages spoken in Myanmar and the highlands ...
A Burmese speaker, recorded in Taiwan. Burmese (Burmese: မြန်မာဘာသာ; MLCTS: Mranma bhasa; pronounced [mjəmà bàθà]) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, [2] where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic group.
Myanmar, [f] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar[g] and also rendered Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. [18]
The government of Myanmar does not recognise several ethnic groups as being among the list of 135 officially recognised ethnic groups: Anglo-Burmese people. Burmese Chinese. Panthay [9] Burmese Indians [10] Taungtha people. Rohingya people. Burmese gorkhas/Nepalese.
An ethnolinguistic map of Burma. This is a demography of Myanmar (also known as Burma) including statistics such as population, ethnicity, language, education level, and religious affiliations. Population of Myanmar by census
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Karen script. The Karen[a] (/ kəˈrɛn / ⓘ kə-REN), also known as the Kayin, Kariang or Kawthoolese, are an ethnolinguistic group of Tibeto-Burman language -speaking people. The group as a whole is heterogeneous and disparate as many Karen ...
The Burmish languages are a subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan languages consisting of Burmese (including Standard Burmese, Arakanese, and other Burmese dialects such as the Tavoyan dialects) as well as non-literary languages spoken across Myanmar and South China such as Achang, Lhao Vo, Lashi, and Zaiwa . The various Burmish languages have a total ...