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Burmese people, Officially Myanma people (Burmese: မြန်မာလူမျိုး) are citizens from Myanmar (Burma), irrespective of their ethnic or religious background. Myanmar is a multi-ethnic , multi-cultural and multi-lingual country.
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 [10] Burmese Indians [11] Taungtha people; Rohingya people; Burmese gorkhas/Nepalese; Burmese Mizos; Jews; Bamar Muslims (Pathi) Thaungtha is similar with rabain
Burmese, a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family, is the native language of the Bamar, [12] and the national language of Myanmar. Burmese is the most widely spoken Tibeto-Burman language, and used as a lingua franca in Myanmar by 97% of the country's population. [43] Burmese is a diglossic language with literary
A Kayan Lahwi girl. The Kayan are a subgroup of the Red Karen (Karenni people), a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Myanmar (Burma). The Kayan consists of the following groups: Kayan Lahwi (also called Padaung, ပဒေါင် [bədàʊɰ̃]), Kayan Ka Khaung (Gekho), Kayan Kadao, Kayan Lahta (Zayein people), Kayan Ka Ngan, Kayan Kakhi, and sometimes, Bwe people (Kayaw).
The cinema of Myanmar and former British Burma has a long history dating back to the 1910s. Burma's first film was a recording of the funeral of Tun Shein - a leading politician of the 1910s, who campaigned for Burmese independence in London. During the 1920s and 1930s, many Burmese-owned film companies (such as A1, New Burma, British Burma ...
The Irrawaddy is published in both English and Burmese, with a primary focus on Burma and Southeast Asia. It is regarded as one of the foremost journalistic publications dealing with political, social, economic and cultural developments in Burma.
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.
Kumudra (Burmese) [27] Hmukhin Shudaunk (Crime Journal) (Burmese) [28] [29] Myanmar Business Today - Myanmar's first bilingual (English-Myanmar) business newspaper [14] Myanmar Digest [30] Myanmar Post - privately owned [31] Sunday Journal [32] The Myanmar Times, [33] a Burmese weekly news journal (daily newspaper in English) Premier Eleven ...