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Burmese English Myanmar English အင်္ဂလိပ်, Myanmar English A welcome sign in English in Myanmar. Pronunciation bərˈmiz ˈɪŋ glɪʃ Native to Myanmar Region Myanmar Ethnicity Burmese people Language family Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Asian English Southeast Asian English Burmese English Early forms Proto-Indo-European Proto ...
Today, Burmese is the primary language of instruction, and English is the secondary language taught. [10] English was the primary language of instruction in higher education from late 19th century to 1964, when Gen. Ne Win mandated educational reforms to "Burmanise". [15] English continues to be used by educated urbanites and the national ...
It has been updated to support the full Myanmar script range of the Unicode 9.0 standard. Myanmar3, (website 1); Myanmar3, (website 2) Myanmar2 ; TharLon; See also: Note that the most common font for Burmese script, Zawgyi, is not compatible with Unicode. Burmese text encoded with Zawgyi will appear garbled to a reader using a Unicode font and ...
The Myanmar Language Commission (Burmese: မြန်မာစာအဖွဲ့; formerly Burmese Language Commission; abbreviated MLC) is the pre-eminent government body on matters pertaining to the Burmese language. [1]
Myanmar–English Dictionary (Burmese: မြန်မာ-အင်္ဂလိပ်အဘိဓာန်) is a modern Government project in Myanmar (formerly Burma), first published in 1993 by the Government of Myanmar's Myanmar Language Commission.
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.
Phonetic notes: ^1 The voicelessness of sonorants is not always perceptible. [4]^2 သ , which was * /s/ in Pali and OB, but was shifted forward by the shift of စ * /ts/ → /s/, is often transliterated as s and transcribed /θ/ in MSB but its actual pronunciation is closer to [ɾ̪ʰ~ɾ̪θ~tθ̆], a dental flap, often accompanied by aspiration or a slight dental fricative, although it can ...
The prevalence of wet-rice farming in Burmese-speaking areas influenced the development of hierarchical pronouns in Burmese, as society was structured more along hierarchical lines. [2] By contrast, other Tibeto-Burman languages in Myanmar, including Jingpo and Karenic languages , have maintained a grammatical system of pronouns, reflective of ...