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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.
The Mon–Burmese script (Burmese: မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ listen ⓘ; Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ, listen ⓘ, Thai: อักษรมอญพม่า listen ⓘ; also called the Mon script, Old Mon script and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia.
A Burmese speaker, recorded in Taiwan. Burmese (Burmese: မြန်မာဘာသာ; MLCTS: Mranma bhasa; pronounced [mjəmà bàθà]) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic group.
Burmese officers treacheroulsy arrested him with 30,000 Manipuri followers and sent them to Burma." [5]: 19 Regarding the Meitei settlement in Myanmar, A.C. Banerjee said, "... thousands of people were deported for settlement in Sagaing and Amarapora districts. Among them were boatman, silk workers and silver smith.
There are approximately a hundred languages spoken in Myanmar (also known as Burma). [ 1 ] Burmese, spoken by two-thirds of the population, is the official language. [ 2 ] Languages spoken by ethnic minorities represent six language families: Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Tai–Kadai, Indo-European, Austronesian and Hmong–Mien, [ 3 ] as well ...
v. t. e. The Mon alphabet (Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်listen ⓘ;, Burmese: မွန်အက္ခရာlisten ⓘ;, Thai: อักษรมอญlisten ⓘ) is a Brahmic abugida used for writing the Mon language. It is an example of the Mon-Burmese script, which derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India.
Burmese is a tonal language, which means phonemic contrasts can be made on the basis of the tone of a vowel. In Burmese, these contrasts involve not only pitch, but also phonation, intensity (loudness), duration, and vowel quality. However, some linguists consider Burmese a pitch-register language like Shanghainese.
It consists of two parts; the first half is a traditional Burmese style section, before transitioning into the second half, a Western -style orchestra. Because of the second half, both the "National Anthem" and its predecessor "Dobama Song" are popularly known as " Kaba Ma Kyei " (Burmese: ကမ္ဘာမကျေ; MLCTS: Ka.bha ma. kye ...