It is used in the media, government administration, and all levels of education. The written language retains many Pali words and syntactic structures no longer found in the spoken language.īurmese is the official language of Myanmar (since 1989, the name for Burma) where it is spoken by 32 million people.
As a result, modern colloquial Burmese used in everyday conversations differs significantly from the formal written form of the language used in textbooks, formal writing, newspapers, fiction, and expository prose. These languages have all influenced the spoken, but not on the written form of Burmese. Throughout history, Burmese has been in contact with speakers of other languages such as Pali and Mon, the earliest groups to occupy Burma in the 12th-13th centuries, and later with European languages such as Portuguese, Dutch, English and French in the 16th-19th centuries.
The total Burmese-speaking population of the world is estimated at slightly above 32 million people ( Ethnologue). It is also spoken in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and the U.S. It is spoken by the majority of the population in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Burmese, myanma bhasa, belongs to the Lolo-Burmese sub-branch of the Tibeto-Burmese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
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