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Myanmar is known by a name deriving from Burma as opposed to Myanmar in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek – Birmania being the local version of Burma in both Italian and Spanish, Birmânia in Portuguese, and Birmanie in French. [32] As in the past, French-language media today consistently use Birmanie. [33] [34]
Older speakers will pronounce the vowel higher and as a front-central vowel in the [ɛ~ɜ] range. The fronting of *a before *ŋ to /ɪ/ is a distinctive feature of MSB, not shared by other varieties of Burmese. Rakhine/Arakhanese dialects shift the /a/ back before both the stop and nasal to become /ɔ̆ʔ/ /ɔ̃ː/.
Naypyidaw, officially romanized as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), [a] [b] is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory . [ 1 ] It is unusual among Myanmar's cities in that it is an entirely planned city outside of any state or region .
The current capital of Myanmar (Burma) is Naypyidaw. The following is a list of political capitals of notable states in Burmese history from the 9th century to the present. The list is generally organised in dynastic and chronological orders. National capitals are shown in bold.
The Union Territory (Nay Pyi Taw) (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေ (နေပြည်တော်)), also called Nay Pyi Taw Council Territory (နေပြည်တော်ကောင်စီနယ်မြေ) (Nay Pyi Taw also spelled Nay Pyitaw, Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Daw) is an administrative division in central Myanmar (Burma). [2]
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million.
Myitkyina (Burmese: မြစ်ကြီးနားမြို့; MLCTS: mrac kri: na: mrui., pronounced [mjɪʔtɕíná]; (Eng; mitchinar) Jinghpaw: Myitkyina, [mjìtkjí̠ná]) is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located 1,480 kilometers (920 mi) from Yangon, and 785 kilometers (488 mi) from Mandalay.
The letter forms of the Burmese script are based on circles. Typically, one circle should be done with one stroke, and all circles are written clockwise. Exceptions are mostly letters with an opening on top. The circle of these letters is written with two strokes coming from opposite directions.