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In written Burmese, the letters of the English alphabet are transcribed according to how the name of the letter sounds to the Burmese ear. [1] Letter BrE IPA Spelling 1
The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese. It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India. The Burmese alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.
Myanmar is a Unicode block containing characters for the Burmese, Mon, Shan, Palaung, and the Karen languages of Myanmar, as well as the Aiton and Phake languages of Northeast India. It is also used to write Pali and Sanskrit in Myanmar.
Myanmar", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals: L2/20-237: Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C19", UTC #165 Minutes, The UTC accepts a formal name alias of type "correction" for U+AA6E MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI HHA, for Unicode version 14.0. The formal name alias will be: MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI LLA. U+AA7B: 1: L2/09 ...
The Mon-Burmese script is distinguished from Khmer-derived scripts (e.g., Khmer and Thai) by its basis on Pali orthography (they traditionally lack Sanskrit letters representing the sibilants <ś> and <ṣ> and the vocalic sonorants <ṛ> and <ḷ>), the use of a virāma, and the round shape of letters.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Burmese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Burmese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Karen alphabet was created by American missionary Jonathan Wade in the 1830s, based on the S'gaw Karen language; Wade was assisted by a Karen named Paulah. [1] The consonants and most of the vowels are adopted from the Burmese alphabet; however, the Karen pronunciation of the letters is slightly different from that of the Burmese alphabet ...
Myanmar portal; Burmese alphabet is within the scope of WikiProject Myanmar, a project to improve all Myanmar related articles on Wikipedia. The WikiProject is also a part of the Counteracting systemic bias group on Wikipedia aiming to provide a wider and more detailed coverage on countries and areas of the encyclopedia which are notably less developed than the rest.