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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.)
The Myanmar Language Commission Transcription System (1980), also known as the MLC Transcription System (MLCTS), is a transliteration system for rendering Burmese in the Latin alphabet. It is loosely based on the common system for romanization of Pali , [ 1 ] has some similarities to the ALA-LC romanization and was devised by the Myanmar ...
Cornyn-Roop system: i.e. William S. Cornyn, D. Haigh Roop Beginning Burmese (1968) [4] John Okell A Guide to the Romanization of Burmese (2002) - conventional transcription with accented tones [5] Minn Latt The Prague method romanization of Burmese (1958) - this method was created as the author was teaching Burmese in Charles University in ...
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.
Burmese is a tonal, pitch-register, and syllable-timed language, [7] largely monosyllabic and agglutinative with a subject–object–verb word order. Burmese is distinguished from other major Southeast Asian languages by its extensive case marking system and rich morphological inventory.
Spelling 1 Spelling 2 Spelling 3 Spelling 4 Examples A /ˈeɪ/ အေ: အေဒီ AD: B /ˈbiː/ ဘီ: ဘီဘီစီ BBC: C /ˈsiː/ စီ: စီအင်အင် CNN: D /ˈdiː/ ဒီ: ဂျီဒီပီ GDP: E /ˈiː/ အီး: အီ: စီအီးအို CEO: F /ˈɛf/ အက်ဖ် ဖှ [2] အက်ဖ်-၂၂ F ...
It is easier to input Burmese script for beginners. [2] input system chooses appropriate characters and generally works for most Burmese fonts in Unicode as well as in ASCII. [3] is portable Windows plugin (using some form of key remapping script) which enables input of Burmese syllables using an N-gram romanized input model.
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. [21]