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Language code: my

Technical information about ISO 639 language code my

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The table below provides technical details for the Burmese language, designated by the my code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

my

Name

Official

Burmese

Native

ဗမာစာ

Family
Sino-Tibetan
Scripts
Myanmar (Burmese)
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Standard BurmeseYawTavoyanMergueseIntha
Related languages
Rakhine (Arakanese)AchangLashiAtsi (Zaiwa)
Key facts
Written in the circular Burmese script, adapted from the Mon prototypeHas three contrastive tones and two notable vowel-length distinctionsFollows a subject–object–verb sentence order with postpositions rather than prepositionsEmploys elaborate honorific particles to mark social hierarchy and politenessUses numeral classifiers when counting objects or people
Sample phrase

မင်္ဂလာပါ၊ နေကောင်းလား?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Burmese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is the official language of Myanmar and is written using the Burmese script. It is estimated that there are more than 33 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Myanmar

32M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Burmese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

my-MM – Burmese (Myanmar)

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