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Burmese names (Burmese: မြန်မာ အမည်) lack the serial structure of most Western names. Like other Mainland Southeast Asian people (except Vietnamese ), the people of Myanmar have no customary matronymic or patronymic naming system and no tradition of surnames .
As Burmese names are often very short, honorifics are sometimes treated as an integral part of a person's name, for example, U Nu or U Thant. If a Burmese person's name consists of a single short word, or their name is most commonly written with the honorific, you may leave the honorific in the title. (This applies to ethnic honorifics as well ...
First, Myanma is the official name of the country in the Burmese language, and the aim of the commission was to have English place names aligned with Burmese place names and pronunciation. Second, the commission thought that the name Myanma was more inclusive of minorities than the name Bama, and wanted the English name of the country to ...
That's how it's normally done in English, not Burmese when it's treated as a whole unsplit. It's easier to understand with names such as Sandar Win, Thandar Shwe, Marla Tun or Thiha Kyaw when Sandar, Thandar, Marla and Thiha are first (Pali names) and Win, Shwe, Tun and Kyaw last (Burmese) names respectively.
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Transcription of Burmese is not standardized, as seen in the varying English transcriptions of Burmese names. For instance, a Burmese personal name like ဝင်း ( [wɪ́ɴ] ) may be variously romanized as Win, Winn, Wyn, or Wynn, while ခိုင် ( [kʰàɪɴ] ) may be romanized as Khaing, Khine, or Khain.
Chit (Burmese: ချစ်) is a Burmese name used by both genders. Notable bearers of the name include: Chit Chit (born 1996), Burmese football defender; Chit Hlaing (1879–1952), Burmese politician; Chit Ko Ko (1917–2008), Burmese botanist; Chit Maung (1913–1945), Burmese journalist and writer; Chit San Maung (guitarist), Burmese ...
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