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 |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Burmese Native ဗမာစာ |
| Family | Sino-Tibetan |
| Scripts | |
| 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 | |
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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
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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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ